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minijail

sandboxing and containment tool used in ChromeOS and Android

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
396GitHub stars
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What it is

sandboxing and containment tool used in ChromeOS and Android

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-12-12 03:38:49 UTC to 2024-06-13 05:19:18 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012023-12-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 112023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 112024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 10

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 112023-12-11 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 182023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 252023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 12024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 82024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 152024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 222024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 292024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 52024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 122024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 192024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 262024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 42024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 112024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 182024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 252024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 12024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 82024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 152024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 222024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 292024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC000
May 62024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC000
May 132024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC000
May 202024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC000
May 272024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 32024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 102024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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New project: Chromebook from scratch The Google userland programs are removed but the kernel and drivers are retained. This frees up lots of storage space to be filled with the owner's choice of open source userland programs.^1 Read-only filesystem, "powerwashing" system recovery, open source bootloader. Chromebook without the Chrome. Not for commercial use but for recreation and experimentation. For commercial/educational use people can use a Chromebook from Google. I have heard that some people own more than one computer. What some (not all) computer users want is an inexpensive portable computer that has excellent hardware support in the Linux kernel. These users users are capable of administering their own computer and have no inclination to let a so-called "tech" company remotely install software on their computer at any time ("
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updates"), use a web browser distributed a so-called "tech" company, store their personal files in "the cloud", i.e., data centers belonging to so-called "tech" companies, remain "logged in" to servers operated by so-called "tech" companies 24/7, and so on. These users want a "Chromebook from scratch". Source-based, but Google does not control the source. 1. If an owner wanted to retain some of those Google-authored userland programs, it may be possible for the owner to compile them herself, e.g., https://github.com/google/minijail
In ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/platforms/ : > gVisor requires a platform to implement interception of syscalls, basic context switching, and memory mapping functionality. Internally, gVisor uses an abstraction sensibly called Platform. Chrome sandbox: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/... Firefox sandbox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox Chromium sandbox types summary: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/docs/linux/sa... Minijail: https://github.com/google/minijail : > Minijail is a sandboxing and containment tool used in ChromeOS and Android. It provides an executable that can be used to launch and sandbox other programs, and a library that can be used by code to sandbox itself. Chrome vulnerability reward amounts: https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/5745167867576320/c... Sy
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stemd has SystemCallFilter= to limit processes to certain syscall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693366 Nerdctl: https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl Nerdctl, podman, and podman-remote do rootless containers.
In The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime

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