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From: Remi VANICAT <vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Safe Caml for online teaching
Date: 20 Feb 2002 18:35:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6z05a4r.dlv@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0202201649270.1587-100000@pc-bioinfo1.ibcp.fr>

Martin Jambon <m.jambon@ibcp.fr> writes:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Alain Frisch wrote:
> 
> > What you describe seems to be overkill for the purpose. You could simply
> > build a toplevel with a restricted standard library (without interaction
> > with the OS and without unsafe operations like Obj), disabled directives,
> > and use a wrapper to kill the toplevel when some timeout expires.
> >
> > What's wrong with this ?
> 
> Nothing's wrong with this in fact.
> The only difference is that the user wouldn't know which values are really
> unbound and which are simply discarded for security purposes.

you could replace all discarded function by a

failwith "unsafe";;


-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-20 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-20 15:15 Martin Jambon
2002-02-20 15:53 ` Alain Frisch
2002-02-20 16:22   ` james woodyatt
2002-02-20 17:13     ` Martin Jambon
2002-02-20 19:16       ` Christophe Raffalli
2002-02-20 16:38   ` Martin Jambon
2002-02-20 17:35     ` Remi VANICAT [this message]
2002-02-21 10:59 ` Xavier Leroy

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