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by user3939382 1319 days ago
> communicate which sort of permissions are needed

OpenBSD has something like this https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2
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unsafecast 1319 days ago
Unfortunately not. Pledge is _awesome_, but it's a different thing.

Pledge protects the system from buggy well-intentioned, cooperative software that could have bugs. What's needed is something that protects the system from ill-intentioned, uncooperative software.

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unsafecast 1318 days ago
> buggy well-intentioned, cooperative software that could have bugs

Ugh, that's what I get for not reading before clicking submit...

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