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Old 22nd July 2015
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It's being viewed as a different approach to the same problem space. Jonathan Corbet wrote:
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The core idea behind tame() is that most applications run in two phases: initialization and steady-state execution. The initialization phase typically involves opening files, establishing network connections, and more; after initialization is complete, the program may not need to do any of those things. So there is often an opportunity to reduce an application's privilege level as it moves out of the initialization phase. tame() performs that privilege reduction; it is thus meant to be placed within an application, rather than (as with SELinux) imposed on it from the outside.
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