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Interesting! That makes perfect sense, I just don't think I'm smart enough to use ptrace properly right now :P
Were you mostly going off the ptrace man page? I tried reading it to figure out ptrace and it made me feel not smart enough too.
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Can I also soapbox about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME (~/.config) folder having gigs of temp data in it? (I'm looking at you, Slack !) How awesome would it be to be able to back up my custom app configs just by copying around one tiny folder? Or throwing it in a git repo and knowing what config changed when? :\
$ du -sch ~/.config/Slack 846M $HOME/.config/Slack 846M total ... this is on a two day old machine. WTF, Slack? Junk cached data belongs in ~/.local/share ($XDG_DATA_HOME), not ~/.config.
Can boxxy make use of rules with regex? If not, consider this a feature request.
It sadly can't. Regex paths are hard due to the way it's implemented; if it was intercepting syscalls via ptrace then regex would be a lot more viable, but since this is just a glorified collection of bind mounts in the end, I'm unsure how I'd implement that nicely...
I wonder if this could be used to move the obnoxious ~/snap directory.
Does 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.
It creates a new mount namespace, and bind-mounts your ENTIRE filesystem into it, before chrooting, so that it can optionally remount / as ro to prevent applications from writing outside of the desired directories. The namespace is to allow doing the bind mounts in the first place.
nice idea but tmux may not be the right example for the readme example since tmux actually supports XDG and its config in ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf
Hah I was literally just complaining about applications not following the XDG directory spec today. there's a non-exhaustive list of applications on the archwiki [0] that put their config/data in dotfiles in the home directory. surprisingly, there's also lots of pushback from maintainers of projects who don't want to change this, for whatever excuse they can produce. a Reddit thread has some list of issues where the…
Can I also soapbox about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME (~/.config) folder having gigs of temp data in it? (I'm looking at you, Slack !) How awesome would it be to be able to back up my custom app configs just by copying around one tiny folder? Or throwing it in a git repo and knowing what config changed when? :\