[Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

[Brett Cannon]

On 7/20/06, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> wrote:
>
> Brett Cannon wrote:
>
> >> The new doc is named securing_python.txt and
> >> can be
> >> found through the svn web interface at
> >>
>
> http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/bcannon-sandboxing/securing_python.txt?rev=50717&view=log
> .
>
> How do you plan to handle CPU-hogs? Stuff like execution of a gigantic
> integer multiplication.


I don't.  =)  Protecting the CPU is damn hard to do in any form of portable
fashion.  And even getting it to work on an OS you do know the details of
leads to probably an interrupt  implementation and that doesn't sound fun.

-Brett
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