[Python-Dev] Handling of sys.args (Re: User's complaints)

[Brett Cannon]

On 7/14/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/14/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > On 7/14/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > > Whoa, whoa. What's the *problem* we're trying to solve here?
> >
> > I have a use case for sandboxing.  I am already having to plan to have a
> > mini-sys module in a sandbox so that they cannot get access to dangerous
> > things.
>
> OK, then I propose that we wait to see which things you end up having
> to provide to sandboxed code, rather than trying to analyze it to
> death in abstracto.


Fine by me.  My design doc already has a preliminary list going  that people
can take a look at.  But it could still change if security analysis shows
possible problems with exposing some of them.

-Brett
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