Hi All,
I hope that everyone is doing well today.
Recently, I have mostly stepped away from Linux, FreeBSD, and
Windows OS's to dive into Illumos and its associated OS's
(SmartOS, OmniOS, and OpenIndiana) to gain more experience so that
I an work on a new Illumos based OS.
For my project direction and in addition to the amazing features
that Illumos-based systems have like Zones which are extremely
useful, I also have a need for application sandboxes and found
that Solaris 11.4 discusses it from what I could find
(https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/application-sandboxing-in-oracle-solaris-114)
and
(https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61023/dlp-sbox.html)
and seem to be built into the OS.
Since I am not yet familiar with the Illumos code-base and am also
still new this arena, I wanted to ask if Illumos has an
application sandbox feature already.
Additionally, I found that there basically are "Sparse Root Zones
(SRZ)" and "Whole Root Zones (WRZ)" as well that basically map
various Global-Zone file directories into the non-Global Zone, and
it made me wonder about Sandboxes and also perhaps non-global
zones that are mapped with even less directories than SRZ.
Anyway, I am just thinking about some ideas for the project but
application sandboxes would be extremely useful since I think that
they are even smaller than the SRZ zones.
Any thought, ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance and have a great day,
Lonnie