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On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:09:45PM -0000, Jonathan Worthington wrote: >> I agree with Chris on minimising the amount of places we do security >> stuff >> as far as is sensible. However, I would think that the interface for >> doing >> sandboxing style stuff would allow restriction of certain types of >> operation (e.g. filesystem access) rather than individual operations >> though, so as to help eliminate the moving target issue. > > It's pretty clear from this thread that we are underspeced on both the > I/O and security subsystems. Hopefully Chip can chime in on this... > > -J IO's underspeced, docs/ROADMAP.pod lists many TODO's regarding the IO subsystem(and is outdated). Socket support isn't speced, and directory handling isn't speced at all. The security pdd is outdated and seems more concept and imagining possibilities than saying how it should be implemented. In essence, from what I can tell, if it's not implemented yet, it seems as though it's underspeced for how it should be.Thread Previous | Thread Next