On Mon, 12 May 2014 00:47:17 -0600
Ryan Hill <rh...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > 1. cgroup -- puts all processes spawned by ebuild to cgroup, and
> > kills all of them once phase exits (prevents leaving orphans),
> > 
> > 2. ipc-sandbox -- puts all processes spawned by ebuild to a separate
> > IPC namespace, preventing them from interfacing other system
> > services via IPC (message queues, semaphores, shared memory),
> > 
> > 3. network-sandbox -- puts all processes spawned by ebuild to
> > a separate network namespace with a private loopback interface,
> > preventing them from interfacing other system services, local
> > network and the Internet.
> 
> All three of these require kernel support.  It might be a good idea
> to add the needed options to that Gentoo Linux menu we have in
> gentoo-sources and enable them by default. 

Right, this skipped my mind when I enabled them yesterday; this should
be documented, as well as have Portage check for missing support and
test it and bail out with a proper error message if it doesn't already.

Which options are these in particular? I'll cook a patch with them.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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