On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 06:07:18 +0200
Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> W dniu czw, 21.09.2017 o godzinie 15∶41 -0700, użytkownik Matt Turner
> napisał:
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org>
> > wrote:  
> > > Given that sandbox is utterly broken by design, I don't really
> > > want to put too much effort in trying to make it a little better.
> > > I'd rather put the minimal effort required to make it
> > > not-much-worse.  
> > 
> > You said in your initial email that you weren't an expert in its
> > internals, but here you say it's broken by design. Why do you think
> > that?
> >   
> 
> Because it uses LD_PRELOAD which is a huge hack and which causes
> guaranteed issues we can't really fix. All we can do is disable it for
> emacs, for compiler-rt and I'm afraid this list will grow because
> overriding random library functions is never a good idea.
> 

I think we're all ears for a better solution. There are probably much
better ways to do sandboxing these days than 15 years ago.

LD_PRELOAD does not work with static binaries. Hence the non
portable ptrace stuff. Hence bugs. Etc. The point is, that's the
best we have now.


Alexis.

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