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Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX

Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX

Posted Feb 23, 2012 18:36 UTC (Thu) by ThinkRob (subscriber, #64513)
Parent article: Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX

But... but I thought FreeBSD was dying!

Kidding aside, this is a fascinating and welcome improvement to FreeBSD. It'll be interesting to see how it stacks up against seatbelt on OS X, particularly with regards to use restricting applications that *weren't* written with capabilities restriction in mind.


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