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How do you stop the app from permanently writing stuff to the registry or filesystem?
by fooker 8y ago
How do you stop the app from permanently writing stuff to the registry or filesystem?
- jclarkcom 8y agoThinapp solved this by presenting a synthetic view of the filesystem and registry to the app. This view merged the contents of the real system with the contents of the package, so the app thought everything was were it expected when it runs. In addition, we provided a copy-on-write sandbox of this view, so any writes would be redirected to a local folder without the app knowing about it. If you delete the sandbox, the app goes back to it's "first run" state.
- hashhar 8y agoIt sounds a lot like how Flatpak and friends work. Would be interested if there were a few detailed blog posts about it?