At 05:22 PM 5/3/2001 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>David L. Nicol wrote:
> > is sandboxing something a language
> > should support at all, or is it best left to the OS to provide
> > a solid chroot facility?
>
>IMHO this is one of those things that should be kept firmly
>in the front of our minds as we design the engine.
>It is yet another area in which we could do right what java
>got half-right.
The biggest problem I have with sandboxing is that to do it right is
apparently difficult, judging by the number of people that get it wrong. We
need to rope in a security expert, I think, for the design.
I don't suppose we have one in the house somewhere?
Dan
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