[Squeakland] Strange error when loading a project into another from a superwiki then saving the image

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Mar 3 05:57:50 PST 2007


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:11 , Andreas Raab wrote:
>> That is correct. With the sandbox on, you can't safe the image -  
>> otherwise this would be a trivial way for a malicious bit of code  
>> to make itself forever at home in that image.
> 
> Well, you should be able to save the image in the untrusted  
> directory, right? Squeakland users usually never save the image, and  
> Squeak.org users never enable the sandbox, so there might well be  
> bugs hidden there.

No, it is intentional that you cannot save the image even in the 
untrusted directory. It avoids the impression that there is a bug in the 
sandbox (not being able to save the image anywhere) that people "work 
around" by saving the image in the untrusted directory and running it 
from there (which would completely defeat the purpose of all of the 
mechanisms in place). If you want to live risky (i.e., save the image 
with unknown code in it that will forever be part of that image) then 
you have to be explicit and turn off the sandbox entirely.

Cheers,
   - Andreas


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