Re: Gnumeric/Guile/Python
- From: Ian McKellar <imckellar harvestroad co au>
- To: James Henstridge <james daa com au>
- Cc: Ian McKellar <imckellar harvestroad com au>, Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>, lukka fas harvard edu, dmiller ilogic com au, goldin flight uchicago edu, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Gnumeric/Guile/Python
- Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:40:53 +0800
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 02:39:21PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> It is difficult to prevent this in just about any language. For these
> sort of problems, the most effective way to prevent them is to use the
> operating system's resource limiting capabilities. AFAIK java/javascript
> does not have protection against these sort of attacks.
Yes, Java and JavaScript are succeptible to these attacks too - this is one of
the reasons I looked to python for secure execution. Operating system resource
limiting is not an option when you want to have a bunch of untrused and
trusted code running in one process.
Ian
--
"Perl is the COBOL of the '90s" - David Basden
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