[sane-devel] Sandboxing scanner applications

Kelly Price strredwolf at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 12:55:29 BST 2020


The question I have is... how strong is the Flatpak sandbox?  Will it
allow such a deal?

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 7:42 AM Alexander Pevzner <pzz at apevzner.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/19/20 12:25 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Sealed memfds, passed via D-Bus, that's 1/2GB in all :)
>
> If D-Bus can pass an arbitrary file descriptor, it can be used to pass
> AF_UNIX socket, allowing usage of "network" transport without actual
> access to networking, and saving 1/2GB of memfs :-)
>
> --
>
>         Wishes, Alexander Pevzner (pzz at apevzner.com)
>


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