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Inside these pages you will find a collection of my personal ramblings (including security disclosures, my thoughts on various topics, and anything else that I feel like writing about). All of the opinions stated here are solely my own, and are released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.
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- The Road to OCIv2 Images: What's Wrong with Tar? Aleksa Sarai, 21 January 2019.
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The need for a better container image format has been fairly self-apparent for a long time, but there hasn't been a solid effort to redesign how container images should operate. Most container image formats are based on
tar, which at first glance may seem like a reasonable choice. In this first part of a series of articles that outline the design of "OCIv2 images", I hope to dissuade you of this notion. - Adventures into ptrace(2) Hell Aleksa Sarai, 03 July 2016.
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As part of my work on rootless containers, I found that many tools try to drop privileges. This makes those tools break inside rootless containers, so I spent a week or two working on a tool that allows users to shim out all of the "drop privileges" syscalls. Here is documented the pain that I went through while figuring out how
ptrace(2)is meant to work. - Android Compilation Headaches Aleksa Sarai, 28 November 2015.
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I've spent the last week of my life trying to build TWRP, which requires having a full, and working Android build environment. With the emphasis on working, I've had just about enough of the stupidity of the Android build system. Every guide is incomplete or out of date, the build system is broken in every possible way and nobody can explain what is going on. Here's my experience with trying to build Android and hopefully will help somebody realise the futility of trying to build a project with such a complicated build system.