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drivebyacct2 on Dec 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public

After looking more it appears that I was doing something that only works when targetting a chroot environment. My mistake.

It would be interesting to think more about user-level applications and how that sort of trust would work, if it could.

throwaway64 on Dec 20, 2012 [–]

theoreticly you could work around the library/datafile issues with LD_PRELOAD hacks to make it load stuff from your home directory instead, but thats pretty awful.

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