Puzzle: Adding domain-based security to Squeak.
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Aug 8 09:44:30 UTC 2006
None of the cited references will solve the original problem(s). They
are related but they won't solve it. Managing memory limits alone would
require *major* modifications of the VM.
Cheers,
- Andreas
Frank Shearar wrote:
> "Michael van der Gulik" <squeakml at gulik.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Hi Howard.
>>
>> I forgot to mention that the reason I'm doing this is to allow untrusted
>> foreign code to run in the same image as trusted code. Untrusted code
>> must be carefully managed - it must not be able to consume large amounts
>> of memory, CPU or disk space to which it is not entitled. Untrusted code
>> / objects must not prevent trusted code from operating well.
>
> Have you looked at the (Tweak) Islands [1] work? Lex Spoon also did work
> with the same name [2], IIRC. And there's the Squeak-E [3] stuff too.
>
> [1] http://tweak.impara.de/TECHNOLOGY/Whitepapers/Islands/
> [2] http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2074
> [3] http://www.erights.org/history/squeak-e.html
>
> frank
>
>
>
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