[Midnightbsd-kernel] systrace, still under development?

[Lucas Holt]

On Sep 28, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Hello Niels,
>
> do you still do any work on systrace, now that the clueless NetBSD®
> developers have removed it? I’ve been pulling from OpenBSD, and I
> hope they will not follow. We are using systrace in our ports frame-
> work to confine buggy build systems, like OpenBSD optionally offers,
> except we have enabled it by default. I’m also using it to confine
> the base system (plus gcc and XFree86®) builds, although, there are
> less problems than with especially unknown/new ports.
>
> Since I’m also a developer at the FreeWRT project, I’d be interested
> in systrace support on more recent GNU/Linux and Mac OSX systems.
> While I do not have a Macintosh, if remote access were enough for
> you I’m sure I can ask one of the many people I know who have one if
> they can provide you access.
>
> As for GNU/Linux, if you do not have access to a system, I’m sure
> that could be arranged.
>
> I’m not a kernel developer, so I probably can’t be of any help with
> real implementation issues.
>
>
> Lucas: do you plan on supporting systrace in MidnightBSD, for example
> use it in mports similar to how we do in MirPorts?

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ctriv@ and I discussed this in detail today.  We don't see a need for  
systrace with mports.  We build packages on magus to test them in a  
chroot environment and compare the differences after compilation.  It  
seems to work for us.  While I can see uses for systrace, it isn't a  
priority for us to integrate it into MidnightBSD at this time.  If  
someone wanted to submit a patchset, we'd gladly take it.

Lucas Holt
Luke at FoolishGames.com
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