From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1542 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jun 2003 22:39:00 -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 32187 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 22:39:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:38:44 -0400 From: Kumba In-reply-to: <1256.10.0.0.1.1055372704.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-id: <3EE7AF74.4030200@gentoo.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 References: <1055368893.27658.3.camel@alita> <1256.10.0.0.1.1055372704.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sandbox X-Archives-Salt: e668588f-11f8-489b-8db7-bfa17281061d X-Archives-Hash: 3616a6516704851e9f1a2a34a856dc94 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". --Kumba -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list