On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sandboxing programming languages is very difficult; most languages > don't even attempt it. Perl used to have a sandboxing module and > gave up on it because it was too hard, thus making it even less > secure than Java in that specific respect, but no one calls it a > security nightmare.
It still exists; it's called Safe. It works fairly well, but it's really hard to balance actually being able to execute code that does anything useful with maintaining security. Don Armstrong -- I'd never hurt another living thing. But if I did... It would be you. -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130412065537.gc15...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
