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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sandbox
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On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:18, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
>  On Thursday 12 June 2003 00:38, Kumba wrote:
> > MooktaKiNG wrote:
> > > OK i feel a bit dumb here. But could someone please explain to me
> > > what sandbox is used for?
> > >
> > > Sorry, this is a bit out of topic, but i can't help my curiosity :-)
> >
> > I believe it's basically a glibc wrapper, intercepting system calls and
> > dropping calls that'd be too dangerous to execute.  Hence its name,
> > "Sandbox".
> >
>=20
> It is, it is basically a library that intercepts calls and that is preloa=
ded=20
> using LD_PRELOAD. It's behaviour is determined by a number of environment=
=20
> variables, that might be better documented than they are right now.
>=20

And are pretty portage specific.  There are a lot of other packages out
there that does the same thing, and as I do not have the time (or
inclination) to take time to get it more 'standalone', or changes that
do that will take long time to get to cvs (since it can easily break an
already volatile package), rather try another package.

 http://www.jkcal.org/simon/itrace.html
 http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/installwatch.html


Regards,

--=20

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa



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