Re: [Tracker] Tracker and sandboxed applications

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

On 1/29/16, Debarshi Ray <rishi is lostca se> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:33:16AM +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> > We decided on the latter approach for the time being: adapt Tracker
> > into a library that can be used by sandboxed apps to provide mining,
> > monitoring and query functionality for whatever directories that app
> > can see.
>
> What about the extractor? Is it going to run in the same process as
> the application? Or will it continue to be separate?

As a separate process (since it might crash) but inside the same
sandbox. It would be pretty risky to have the app in the sandbox
sending arbitrary data to a process outside the sandbox.

Sam