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Re: sandboxing

From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
May 4, 2001 07:09
Subject:
Re: sandboxing
Message ID:
20010504150922.Q546@blackrider.blackstar.co.uk
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:03:05AM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Memory limits we should be able to do, assuming Perl 6 continues to
> > have its own malloc.
> 
> Well... Perl doesn't use it's own malloc *that* widely.

Who knows what Perl 6 will do internally, but we'll probably have some
sort of malloc wrapper at least.

Anyhow, if you need to set a certain flag when compiling perl6 to
allow certain sandbox features (I can see certain checks necessary
being in very hot parts of the code) that should be ok.


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