At 8:42 AM -0500 4/13/05, Timm Murray wrote:
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 08:38 am, BÁRTHÁZI András wrote: <>
I think that web development will be very important in the life of Parrot and Perl 6. One of the most important (at least as a server administrator) feature of PHP, is that you can lock the programs into a directory by defining "open_basedir". If the application try to open a file from a directory not defined in it, that there will be an exception. It's very useful for a hosting company, that two client's program cannot read each other.
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I think Parrot is the wrong place to solve this problem. It's better to be
handled by the languages themselves.
Nope, parrot's the right place to solve this problem, otherwise the problem's not solved. Security needs to be implemented by the platform (which, in this case, would be parrot) if you want it to work.
I agree, that's why I sent this letter to this mailing list. Anyway, I think this feature would be very useful for all the scripting languages for CGI scripting and for mod_parrot, too (I'm missing this feature from Perl 5), and maybe not just for the web, but for console and other type of applications.
Let me mention an other feature related to this topic: disabling built-in functions, because limiting file access by I/O is not enough, if you can use system(), `` and other things.
An other question is, that how can you tell to the platform, to limit these features, maybe non-modifiable environment variables and command line parameters can be the ways of it.
Bye, Andras
