Distributors entering Flatpakland [LWN.net]

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 9, 2022 15:25 UTC (Sat) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
In reply to: Distributors entering Flatpakland by smcv
Parent article: Distributors entering Flatpakland

With systemd v251 most of the service sandboxing options are available for user units too (basically everything but things that deal with block/loop devices). I wonder how it would look if transient units were used instead of bubblewrap? The advantage would be uber process management thanks to cgroups. Just a thought experiment. If only I had infinite time...

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Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 10, 2022 10:15 UTC (Sun) by smcv (subscriber, #53363) [Link] (1 responses)

Again, replacing the use of bubblewrap is in many ways the easy part (it's quite a thin wrapper around kernel APIs); the hard part is everything else (in Flatpak itself and in the portals) that's been built around it.

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 10, 2022 10:31 UTC (Sun) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Could the hard parts be split out so they can be shared with other efforts?