Never mind--file:// only does reads. Haven't had my coffee yet this morning :)
Jason On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Jason Duell <jdu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > It sounds like this is going to break all file:// URI accesses until we > finish implementing e10s support for them: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922481 > > That may be more bustage on nightly than is acceptable? > > Jason > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto <g...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> the next Nightly build will have a significantly tightened Linux >> sandbox. Writes are no longer allowed except to shared memory (for IPC), >> and to the system TMPDIR (and we're eventually going to get rid of the >> latter, perhaps with an intermediate step to a Firefox-content-specific >> tmpdir). >> >> There might be some compatibility fallout from this. Extensions/add-ons >> that try to write from the content process will no longer work, but the >> impact there should be limited given that similar (and stricter) >> restrictions have been tried out on macOS. (See bug 1187099 and bug >> 1288874 for info/discussion). Because Firefox currently still loads a >> number of external libraries into the content process (glib, gtk, >> pulseaudio, etc) there is some risk of breakage there as well. You know >> where to report (Component: Security - Process Sandboxing). >> >> This behavior can be controlled via a pref: >> pref("security.sandbox.content.level", 2); >> >> Reverting this to 1 goes back to the previous behavior where the set of >> allowable system calls is restricted, but no filtering happens on >> filesytem IO. >> >> When Firefox is built with debugging enabled, it will log any policy >> violations. Currently, a clean Nightly build will show some of those. >> They are inconsequential, and we'll deal with them, eventually. (Patches >> welcome though!) >> >> -- >> GCP >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> > > > > -- > > Jason > -- Jason _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform