If the bundle contains an origin link we can now install related
things from it, such as locale data.
You can also build the bundle with --runtime-repo=URL, where the url
points to a flatpakrepo file for a repo with runtimes. This works
similar to the RuntimeRepo= feature in flatpakref files.
This lets any client, possibly in a sandbox if it has access to the
session helper, spawn a process on the host, outside any sandbox.
Clearly this is not something you typically want a sandboxed app to
do. However, it is sometimes very useful when using flatpak mainly
for distribution. For instance, an IDE needs to use this to launch a
flatpak build operation inside the sandbox. (Because otherwise recursive
calls to flatpak will not work.)
We want to let the flatpak command show more information.
These functions will not be allowed from inside the sandbox
to prevent leaking information to sandboxed applications.
Lookup: go from a file (handed in via an fd) to a document id
Info: return origin and permissions for an id
List: return information about all exported documents
These document id will not be shared for multiple users. The main
difference is this this makes it safe for the creating app to delete
the document if he wants to (i.e. for temporary docs), and thus we can
grant this additional permission for the calling app.
In order to be robust against symlink attacks (i.e. make a document
for a path, then replace it with a symlink somewhere else and have the
portal read that instead) we store the parent dev/ino when we create
the document id and always verify that (atomically with the *at
syscalls) on each use.
Also, we pass O_PATH fds when creating documents, as it allows us
to be a bit safer. For instance we can verify that the fd is a O_PATH
fd before doing any ops on it, and it makes it possible to avoid other
symlink trickery.
Also, we drop the double add methods, and just use the O_PATH version.
This moves a all source code into separate subdirs per binary. The
helper and the generic stuff goes into lib/ which is then used by all
the others. For now this is a completely internal library, but at
some point we will probably clean it up and expose some subset.
Also, we move the dbus proxy to libexecdir.
Alexander Larsson