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Home » Magazine Archive » 2012 » No. 3 » A Taste of Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX » Abstract
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A Taste of Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX
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Capsicum is a lightweight operating system capability and sandbox framework planned for inclusion in FreeBSD 9. Capsicum extends, rather than replaces, UNIX APIs, providing new kernel primitives and a userspace sandbox API. These tools support decomposition of monolithic UNIX applications into compartmentalized logical applications.
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