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Ind60c3f7f7c, this was changed to close a hole in the sandbox. Unfortunately, this was too restrictive such that it made local port binding fail, thus making derivations that needed `__darwinAllowLocalNetworking` gain nearly nothing, and thus largely fail (as the primary use for it is to enable port binding). This unfortunately does mean that a sandboxed build process can, in coordination with an actor outside the sandbox, escape the sandbox by binding a port and connecting to it externally to send data. I do not see a way around this with my experimentation and understanding of the (quite undocumented) macOS sandbox profile API. Notably it seems not possible to use the sandbox to do any of: - Restrict the remote IP of inbound network requests - Restrict the address being bound to As such, the `(local ip "*:*")` here appears to be functionally no different than `(local ip "localhost:*")` (however it *should* be different than removing the filter entirely, as that would make it also apply to non-IP networking). Doing `(allow network-inbound (require-all (local ip "localhost:*") (remote ip "localhost:*")))` causes listening to fail. Note that `network-inbound` implies `network-bind`. (cherry picked from commit00f6db36fd)
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