Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ed Schouten <e...@nuxi.nl> * Package name : cloudabi-utils Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Ed Schouten <e...@nuxi.nl> * URL : https://nuxi.nl/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Utilities and libraries for starting CloudABI programs
CloudABI is a Unix-like runtime environment that is purely built on the concept of capability-based security. By using capability-based security, applications become easier to test and reuse (due to its similarity to dependency injection). It also makes applications more secure, as processes only start up with a restricted set of rights. The cloudabi-utils package provides two things: 1. libcloudabi: Native Linux versions of some of the APIs that are normally only available inside of CloudABI. More specifically, it provides ports of the functions that you normally call to launch CloudABI processes. 2. cloudabi-run: This utility uses libcloudabi to spawn CloudABI processes, providing it access to resources specified in a YAML configuration file. More information about CloudABI can be found here: - Official website: https://nuxi.nl/ - Talk at 32C3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cYMmSY2Dc - C library source code: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc - Software ported to CloudABI: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi-ports - Source code for cloudabi-utils: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi-utils - Linux kernel modifications: https://github.com/NuxiNL/linux As I am the author of this piece of software, I will maintain this package myself.
