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by mike_hearn 406 days ago
Parts of it are in Linux. Namespaces and pidfd got in, at least. PowerBoxes are in every OS these days including Linux via Flatpak.
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Oh, interesting thanks! That would be like what's described here? https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html

Looking at Leonard's post from my earlier comment, I was really appreciating the ability to do this sort of restriction _within_ a single application. I know that the code I am writing is not doing anything malicious, but I'm still at the mercy of whatever dependent libraries I'm calling. (Think file parsers, for examples of code that often goes sideways.) His Eio effects library for OCaml supports Capsicum, which I could see as being awesome for any sort of multi-user server process in particular. https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/eio?tab=readme-ov-file#de...