I have always longed for a more flexible security
system that could limit what a part of code could do
in Perl.
In perl5 Safe.pm (and Safe::Hole) have serious
limitations and problems since it is difficult to have
the security-limited code (that executes in a safe
compartment) have use packages
--- David Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Kv Org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
> > I believe Perl6 needs a facility to run
> > "compartmented" code (object-oriented and
> > module-loading) that is tagged as to its
> permissions
> > and "
--- David Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Kv Org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
> > I believe Perl6 needs a facility to run
> > "compartmented" code (object-oriented and
> > module-loading) that is tagged as to its
> permissions
> > and "
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:55:23 -0800, Chromatic wrote:
>
>I'd really like to be able to save comments from
>source files as metadata. This has at least two
>potential benefits. First, it >makes it much easier
>to recreate the whole file from bytecode (especially
>refactored bytecode).
>Second, it
I see two different situations when
permissions/capabilities are concerned: the first is
when one tries to run untrusted code, modules or parts
of code and needs some kind of sanboxing mechanism.
Safe has been built with this situation in mind,
mostly.
The second is when one builds a perl system w
