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by rcoder 4202 days ago
Wow. That's a fun one.

It's also a perfect example of why even really amazing teams reinventing a language/tooling ecosystem from scratch stumble over problems that were solved years (or even decades ago) in preceding platforms. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if the "reinvent from scratch" critique is more deserved by Docker, Go, or Linux.

That being said, I'm pretty sure even the broken Setuid behavior described there would be good enough to sandbox a thread or child proc that was just handling buffered I/O into and out of the xz binary.