Seccomp tangle

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> 
> I've been experimenting with some code to allow custom scccomp lists.
> 
> The idea is to replace the --enable-seccomp configure option with
>   --enable-seccomp=foo
> and ntp_sandbox would include syscomp/foo.c which would be a list of syscalls 
> used by this system.
> 
> I assume we would maintain a list for each OS/distro/version/hardware 
> combination that we are interested in.  I have a few scripts that turn strace 
> output into a list.  ...
> 
> Is this interesting?  If not, I'll drop it.
> 
> If yes, I'll need some help to work out the details.

Aaarrgghhh.  It;s a huge pain in the ass and I wish it weren't interesting.
But given our mission statememnnt, it has to be.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>