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CLOUDABI(4)		     Kernel Interfaces Manual		     CLOUDABI(4)

NAME
     cloudabi, cloudabi32, cloudabi64 -- CloudABI support

SYNOPSIS
     Support for 32-bit CloudABI executables can be compiled into the kernel by
     adding this line to the kernel configuration file:

	   options COMPAT_CLOUDABI32

     Similarly, support for 64-bit CloudABI executables can be enabled by adding
     this line:

	   options COMPAT_CLOUDABI64

     CloudABI support can also be loaded at boot time from loader.conf(5):

	   cloudabi_load="YES"
	   cloudabi32_load="YES"
	   cloudabi64_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     CloudABI is a POSIX-like pure capability-based runtime environment, similar
     to  capsicum(4).	It  can  be used to develop applications that are cross-
     platform, easier to test, and hardened against security exploits.

     Support for CloudABI on FreeBSD consists of three separate kernel	modules.
     The  cloudabi  kernel module implements all of the system calls that do not
     depend on data structures that differ between hardware architectures.

     The cloudabi32 and cloudabi64 kernel modules provide implementations of all
     of the machine-dependent system calls, assuming  that  pointers  stored  in
     data  structures are either 32 bits or 64 bits in size.  These modules also
     provide the image activators that load and start ELF executables.

     Though the cloudabi module can be loaded on any architecture  supported  by
     FreeBSD,  the cloudabi32 module is only available on amd64, armv6 and i386.
     The same holds for the cloudabi64 module, which is only available for amd64
     and arm64.

     A full cross  compilation	toolchain  for	CloudABI  is  available  in  the
     devel/cloudabi-toolchain port.

     The  sysutils/cloudabi-utils  port  provides  the	cloudabi-run(1) utility.
     cloudabi-run(1) can be used to safely execute CloudABI processes  with  ac-
     cess to a restricted set of resources.

SEE ALSO
     cloudabi-run(1), capsicum(4), linux(4), elf(5)

     CloudABI for FreeBSD: https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/freebsd/.

     cloudlibc on GitHub: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc.

     The	CloudABI	Ports	     Collection        on	 GitHub:
     https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi-ports.

HISTORY
     CloudABI support first appeared in FreeBSD 11.0.

AUTHORS
     Nuxi: https://nuxi.nl/.

FreeBSD 11.1		       September 22, 2016		     CLOUDABI(4)

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