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No! I just thought it was a cute name ("put things in a box"), and it wasn't a common repo name on GitHub.
You might be surprised how many of us were obsessed with Boxxy lol.
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#13Ok, hi! My name is Boxxy...
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#15AWS an interesting example considering it's also a default search path for the SDK so anything using an AWS SDK is going to check for ~/.aws/config; does boxxy apply the rules to anything run in a shell, or only if 'run by boxxy'?
Only in the latter case; I didn't want to assume how people want things done, and implicitly magical tools break more often than not in my experience. You may also be able to tell I don't have a lot of AWS experience (:
Boxxy seems good enough for userspace.
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Only in the latter case; I didn't want to assume how people want things done, and implicitly magical tools break more often than not in my experience. You may also be able to tell I don't have a lot of AWS experience (:
Would be cool if there was a tool that could detect that configured path was attempted to be opened, and redirect the open() syscall to the real path... But that would most likely require kernel support. Boxxy seems good enough for userspace.
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#19Are you aware of any notable caveats to using Boxxy, given the mount-based implementation? E.g., will this continue to work if you sync ~/ with other machines (rsync, FTP, SyncThing)?
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#20Does this use namespaces or chroot? The readme mentions namespaces (like Flatpak?), but https://github.com/queer/boxxy/blob/mistress/src/enclosure/m... seems to indicate it uses chroot.