Status of sandbox/Capsicum support in the Chromium FreeBSD port

[René Ladan]

2014-01-30 Khilan Gudka <Khilan.Gudka at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> Dear Chromium port maintainer(s)
>
> I was wondering what the current status was with regards to sandboxing
> renderer processes. In particular, now that Capsicum comes as standard in
> FreeBSD, I'm interested in running Chromium with Capsicum enabled. Robert
> Watson (my supervisor, and whose office is opposite mine) did an initial
> version a few years ago (https://github.com/rwatson/chromium-capsicum) but
> these patches were not upstreamed.
>
For what its worth, George Liaskos (on chromium@) and I started submitting our
patches upstream, but it will take a while I guess given the number of patches.

> Are there any patches around for the latest port/plans for adding Capsicum
> support?
>
> If not, then I would be very much interested in helping in this regard.
>
I think it would be best to propose this on the chromium developers list
(chromium-dev at chromium.org) first to see if there is some general interest.

Regards,
René