--share=network permission

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:58 AM Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 10:46 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > There have been some suggestions that this could be done as a portal
> > that talks to NetworkManager to set up some tunnel. Do you think that
> > is something we should pursue ?
>
> What would this stop the applications from doing? I can't really think
> of a case where we'd want to disable networking from an application
> that requested it, unless it was for debugging purposes.
>

In limited / metered bandwidth situations, you may want to keep an app from
using network.
Even if you don't want to disallow network use, you may want to have
information about the
bandwidth use of applications.
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