Plugin Versioning Woes?

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Thu May 3 23:38:29 UTC 2001


Bert,

> Well, call me paranoid or something, but I always run Squeak in secure
> mode. There's a handy environment variable for this. I don't 
> want Squeak (or any other program) to create directories without asking.  
> Setting up a suitable directory structure is the installer's 
> responsibility. Do we really need to do this in the image?

If the installer does it, we don't.

> Aha, my VM doesn't have the SecurityManager prims yet. Did someone
> implement these for unix, yet? If not, is it obvious how to implement
> them?

It's rather straightforward. The only real thing to do is to return a
directory that is assumed to be trusted and one that's assumed to be the
root for all untrusted content. Everything else is just setting and
returning a bunch of flags.

> This is good, indeed, but applies to projects only, not to 
> other "active contents" I might receive from others.

And what would this be?! ;-)

Cheers,
  - Andreas





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