tabox 1.3.1

A sandbox to execute a program in an isolated environment and measure its resource usage
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tabox

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A minimal program to securely execute untrusted executables in a sandboxed environment.

Featres:

  • measure and limit accurately the usage of the following resources:
    • CPU time in nanoseconds (both user, system)
    • memory usage (maximum residente set size - RSS) in bytes
    • wall time
  • doesn't require root privileges (altough it requires user namespaces enabled, something that some distributions disable by default)
  • dedicated filesystem for the sandbox with the possibility to bind-mount directories on the local filesyste, both read-only and read-write
  • works also on macOS, altough in that system no real sandboxing is done and some features are not available (e.g. bind mounts)

This sandbox is currently used by task-maker-rust to securely execute user submissions.

License: MPL-2.0