KernelImage plans, namespaces, security, ???

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 15 08:23:41 UTC 2007


You want the Kernel image to do these things you listed, or just have them 
as an option?


>From: "Michael van der Gulik" <mikevdg at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: KernelImage plans, namespaces, security, ???
>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:33:51 +1300
>
>Hi all, especially Pavel.
>
>What are your long-term plans for KernelImage?
>
>I'm working on a more secure version of squeak, and KernelImage looks like 
>a
>good starting point.
>
>Pavel: would you want the following features in KernelImage, most of which
>would break backwards compatibility:
>
>- Hierarchical Namespaces,
>
>- Preventing multiple applications in an image from being able to affect
>each other (in terms of excessive memory usage etc),
>
>- Capability-based security, meaning that core Squeak classes cannot be
>modified, devices must be granted access to, etc, enabling you to load
>foreign, untrusted code and execute it securely.
>
>If so, then I'd like to work with you on this. If not, I'll have to fork
>KernelImage for my own project.
>
>I assume you've released KernelImage under the MIT license?
>
>Cheers,
>Michael.


>

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