Re: [PMH] Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir ximian com>]

On 24 May 2001 10:19:56 -0400, Eric Mitchell wrote:
> However, you could rig up an LD_PRELOAD shared library to handle 
> some useful system calls (open, unlink, etc.) and even go so far 
> as to ask for confirmation before doing anything "suspicious" 
> (opening files outside current directory, opening network port
> to i.0wn.j00.net, etc.)  It would still be a pain, but would
> provide a potentially useful "sandbox" area in which to run an
> application, without compromising the integrity of the system
> as a whole.

Something which just came up (on slashdot, no less) is libsafe.. it
looks fairly interesting and might be useful for something like this.

http://www.avayalabs.com/project/libsafe/index.html

LGPL'd to boot.  this would at least maybe prevent the stack-smash-root-
shell-opens-on-port-9999-type programs.

    - Vladimir