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Mbox is a lightweight sandboxing mechanism that any user can use without special privileges in commodity operating systems.

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  • Open Source

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Last update on 26 May 2014 https://github.com/tsgates/mbox/commits/master

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What is mbox?

Mbox introduces a novel sandbox usage model; when executing a program in the sandbox, Mbox prevents programs from modifying the host filesystem while giving them the impression that they are in fact making those modifications. Mbox achieves this by providing a layered sandbox filesystem and by interposing on system calls with ptrace and seccomp/BPF. At the end of program execution, the user can examine changes in the sandbox filesystem, and selectively commit them back to the host filesystem.