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riffraff on March 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vulnerability #319816 – npm fails to restrict the ...

the problem with relying on chroot is that (AFAIK) it might not be available on all platforms supported by the language-specific package managers.

arianvanp on March 26, 2016 [–]

The new Docker runs on Microsoft Hyper-V and on Mac's equivalent. So that would actually be a solution.

riffraff on March 26, 2016 | [–]

in a very restricted sense maybe, but for example perl's CPAN also supports stuff like HP-UX, AIX, z/OS, NonStop and OS/400[0].

[0] http://www.cpan.org/ports/

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