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Re:How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser by imtringued on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:36AM (#25477639)
>It also exposes host calls.

Only if you grant explicit access to them. What usually happens is that there is a vendor provided API that only gives you access to exactly what you need which is significantly less powerful than a complete linux process that can write to files, spawn background threads, etc all by default.

Yes you can block access to these things but you're going to miss something at some point.

Re:How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser by CyberRabbi on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:47PM (#25482430)
In seccomp the only syscalls available are read, write, exit, and sigreturn. There is nothing to miss