A Measurement Study on the Adoption of Pledges and Unveils in the OpenBSD Operating System (arxiv.org)
from hucste@lemmy.ml to openbsd@lemmy.ml on 07 Jul 13:30
https://lemmy.ml/post/49727397

The paper presents a longitudinal measurement study on the adoption of the pledge and unveil system calls in OpenBSD. These system calls are used to sandbox programs and libraries. Given a dataset covering 19 releases, many programs and libraries were modified to use the system calls already before their introductions in official releases.

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