Minimal container-like sandbox built from scratch in C
Details
- External ID
- 46181341
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Minimal container-like sandbox built from scratch in C
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 7, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Runbox recreates core container features without relying on existing runtimes or external libraries. It uses namespaces, cgroups v2, and seccomp to create an isolated process environment, with a simple shell for interaction. For future gonna work on adding an interface so external applications can be executed inside Runbox, similar to containers.Github: https://github.com/Sahilb315/runboxHappy to hear feedback or suggestions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- container-like sandbox in c
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing a Linux container sandbox from scratch in C demands low-level systems programming knowledge of the Linux kernel, unshare/clone syscalls, mount namespaces, cgroups v2 hierarchy, and BPF/seccomp filter configurations.
What it would actually take: Requires native C programming interacting directly with Linux kernel interfaces (clone(2), unshare(2), pivot_root, setns). The developer must configure cgroups v2 control files (/sys/fs/cgroup) to constrain memory/CPU and construct BPF byte-code rules via libseccomp to restrict dangerous system calls. Deep expertise in Linux systems internals, kernel security primitives, and virtual filesystem isolation is strictly required.
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