Re: CapPython and Python 3.0, and eyebrow-raising applications
"Brett Cannon" <[email protected]>
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2008/9/19 Jimmy Wylie Jr. <[email protected]>: > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:07 PM, zooko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > What is the application of CapPython which >> > would raise the most eyebrows and cause the most Python hackers to >> > say "Hey, that *is* cool!"? > > If I remember correctly, Python had a "Restricted Execution Environment". I > think the its lying around in the library reference somewhere. But they had > to scrap the whole library, because it had some serious security flaws. (At > least I think that was the reason.) You're thinking of rexec and Bastion. And yes, they were removed because we consistently found security flaws in them. -Brett