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Sven Zheng 770eff8844 [Code Health] Remove MacSyscallSandbox feature
The feature will not be used in the near future.

Bug: 356623853, 40637835
Change-Id: I0b09fefb027a7e4c6b304b5a0ff4d70d2e6d723a
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/6419522
Commit-Queue: Sven Zheng <svenzheng@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rowe <markrowe@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Avi Drissman <avi@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1442772}
2025-04-04 10:57:53 -07:00
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Sandbox Library

This directory contains platform-specific sandboxing libraries. Sandboxing is a technique that can improve the security of an application by separating untrustworthy code (or code that handles untrustworthy data) and restricting its privileges and capabilities.

Each platform relies on the operating system's process primitive to isolate code into distinct security principals, and platform-specific technologies are used to implement the privilege reduction. At a high-level:

  • mac/ uses the Seatbelt sandbox. See the detailed design for more.
  • linux/ uses namespaces and Seccomp-BPF. See the detailed design for more.
  • win/ uses a combination of restricted tokens, distinct job objects, alternate desktops, and integrity levels. See the detailed design for more.

Built on top of the low-level sandboxing library is the //sandbox/policy component, which provides concrete policies and helper utilities for sandboxing specific Chromium processes and services. The core sandbox library cannot depend on the policy component.