What the OpenBSD developers do with OpenBSD is their business. Tools in the base system are regularly improved or replaced. They’re under no obligation to use their operating system as a testbed for new, “secure” languages, nor do they need special “announcements” unless they feel that’s important (the article in question is just the CVS email list).
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I wonder if something like capabilities (freebsd’s capsicum) would be appropriate for something like file.
Does OpenBSD have anything like that?
This comment baffles me:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9441262
What the OpenBSD developers do with OpenBSD is their business. Tools in the base system are regularly improved or replaced. They’re under no obligation to use their operating system as a testbed for new, “secure” languages, nor do they need special “announcements” unless they feel that’s important (the article in question is just the CVS email list).
Per Mr. Steele on Twitter, some nice additional work with privilege separation and sandboxing:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143014212727213&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143014250427343&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143014276127454&w=2
Is there a tutorial to understanding how to read online mailing lists? I can never figure out the interface.
Marc had a lot of nuances. For something a little more straight-forward, consider mail-archive.com.