brwap

[Hans-Peter Huth]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:32:35 +0100
Hans-Peter Huth <hans-ph at web.de> wrote:

To reply mayself:

> On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:53:25 +0100
> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > bwrap is a tool to chroot an application while it starts. We don't
...
> > quietly. Firefox for exemple is installed like this with apt. It's not
> > a native package, it's a containerized version.
> >   

I think the reason of bwrap appearing is clycin, used by gdk-pixbuf, see
here:
https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2025/06/13/making-gnomes-gdkpixbuf-image-loading-safer/

so as i understand its sort-of-a container to savely handle image decoding
and it will also appear in apps which are natively compiled, not only
flatpack, appimage etc

HP
> 
> Thanks for the explanation,
> 
> i'm using Manjaro, did not expect that a natively provided program did use
> something like this. And DK seems to be the only one (Firefox does not
> call bwrap here). Anyway, does not seem to cause some problems.
> 
> HP
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Gilles Caulier
> > 
> > Le sam. 13 déc. 2025 à 21:53, Hans-Peter Huth
> > <hans-ph at web.de> a écrit :  
> > >
> > > just for my understanding: on Linux (Manjaro im my case) DK starts
> > > many bwrap and /usr/lob/clycin-loaders processes which seem to stay
> > > after DK has been terminated. Whats the purpose of these processes
> > > and is it normal that the are not terminated? It seems they do no
> > > harm, just sit there.
> > >
> > > This behavior occurs here with DK 8.8 native exe and 8.9 appimage.
> > >
> > > Just curios.
> > >  
> ...

> 


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