My personal view is that separate users are enough software separation for everything that I have ever wanted to do. Dunno about the party line though.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016, at 05:19 PM, stephen Turner wrote: > whats the suckless view of containers and why? what about a > containerized init helper where sinit calls the container program and > then runs daemons and the rest of the system from containers? Do you > feel containers offer additional security/stability? > > Just thinking about "cloud" stuff again and daydreaming about servers. > > I suppose with a system as small as suckless offers it might be a moot > point by the time you fire up several VM instances. VM's would add a > semi redundancy in the event of a single failure in that it wouldn't > take down the other services but then you have other issues if the > system fails anyways right?! > > just random thoughts. > > thanks, > stephen >
