From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5946 invoked by uid 1002); 12 Jun 2003 08:18:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3461 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2003 08:18:22 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:18:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1055368893.27658.3.camel@alita> <1256.10.0.0.1.1055372704.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> <3EE7AF74.4030200@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <3EE7AF74.4030200@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_MdD6+RULAKrbvbh"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200306121018.20948.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sandbox X-Archives-Salt: dc04ddf7-a51c-43a7-9814-21e8c45b8f7e X-Archives-Hash: 46306a9376244ebce7322eddb636bf08 --Boundary-02=_MdD6+RULAKrbvbh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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". > It is, it is basically a library that intercepts calls and that is preloade= d=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. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv --Boundary-02=_MdD6+RULAKrbvbh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+6DdMbKx5DBjWFdsRAnEPAJ95gE5G6G4wVxok7cwr7o+o7r3AlgCgtqev uImvTdg28P6mCbNl8VFoJLk= =udHs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_MdD6+RULAKrbvbh--