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Attaching a separate firewall rules to every process would be a bit heavyweight. What we do have is network namespaces that let you have networking rules (incl firewall) per a group of processes.


that's what all firewall apps on Android (bastardized Linux) does.

well, they already have a user namespace per app which they can match on the firewall rule, but a per "main" program pid net namespace would be pretty much the same. i guess this can be a cool patch to this plus a one weekend qt+rust gui to manage the firewall (or a patch to firewalld gui)... only if i ever had a weekend.




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