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Building ForkCage: A Forking Container in C++ for AI Sandboxes
A developer is building ForkCage, a container that can fork processes to provide isolated environments for AI agents. The project uses raw Linux syscalls and currently supports running commands in a chroot jail with output capture. The author shares three bugs encountered, including a pipe deadlock and issues with missing executables in the jail.
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While ForkCage is a learning project, the concept of forking containers could reduce startup latency for AI sandboxes, but production readiness is far off.
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