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seccomp
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Breaks easily with standard userspace librariesUnreviewed
20152026- Seccomp is pretty much unusable, and dropping privileges is hard to get right2022-04-27
- Seccomp is so hard to use in practice that it breaks easily and is effectively unusable with standard userspace libraries2019-08-03
- Tight seccomp filters are hard to get right since libc's syscalls are unpredictable2015-04-26
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 3 complaints
- Seccomp is pretty much unusable, and dropping privileges is hard to get right2022-04-27
- Seccomp is so hard to use in practice that it breaks easily and is effectively unusable with standard userspace libraries2019-08-03
- Tight seccomp filters are hard to get right since libc's syscalls are unpredictable2015-04-26