Re: Users-prolog Digest, Vol 72, Issue 11

Duncan Patton a Campbell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.prolog.general
Organization NeoText
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:00:24 -0400
[email protected] wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Is there any way of executing an untrusted prolog-program in a secure
> way. That is, so there is no way for the program to for instance read
> or modify files / establish network connections etc.
> 
> (I'm a TA and thinking of writing an automated solution tester.)
> 
> // Andreas Lundblad
> 

The place to do this is at a system level, and not as a language
feature, per-se.  To be paranoid, you might run your suspect 
program inside a chrooted box on OpenBSD.

Dhu


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