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28.0.50; Sandbox mode

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Message #224 received at 45198 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>,
 Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>,
 45198 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Subject: Re: bug#45198: 28.0.50; Sandbox mode
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 13:57:38 -0400

>> As we gain more experience with these sandboxing mechanisms, we can look
>> at relaxing these restrictions, but I think initially we should
>> be conservative.
>
> I take the opposite view, but our goals are the same and we will converge.

I guess the conversion goes like:
- define "low-level" interfaces to OS-specific functionality.  They can
  be as close to the OS's own featureset as we want.  They don't
  really need to be stable over time (especially not at the beginning).
- define an OS-agnostic API on top of them.  This one needs to be
  conservative and should evolve more slowly, paying attention to
  backward compatibility.


        Stefan

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