Plugin Versioning Woes?

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Fri May 4 00:23:28 UTC 2001


On Thu, 3 May 2001, Raab, Andreas wrote:

> 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.

So we should beat the installer writers to do it for us :-)

> > 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.

The "trusted" directory would be the one containing VM and image, while
the untrusted one could be a subdirectory of it, correct?

> > This is good, indeed, but applies to projects only, not to
> > other "active contents" I might receive from others.
>
> And what would this be?! ;-)

Like, everything? Squeak is so powerful it's scary sometimes! :-)

-- Bert





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