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Date:      Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:22:54 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Capsicum project: Ideas needed
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Lars Engels wrote:

> I just stumbled upon this rather outdated thread...
>
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:09:52 +0400, Ilya Bakulin wrote: [...]
>>> wget curl links/lynx
>> This is Ports software, we may try to modify it and even send patches to 
>> upstream, or maintain our local patches. I wanted to focus on base system 
>> components during GSoC, but it doesn't hurt to try to capsicumize these 
>> tools either.
>
> fetch(1) is similar to wget and curl and is part of the base system, so 
> would this be a candidate?

I'd think fetch would be quite a good candidate -- most of its work is done as 
a pipeline between a socket and a file, and sandboxing the gubbins that sits 
in the middle of that pipeline would be quite beneficial.

Robert



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