Pythoin MUD (PyMUD?)

[jcm]

Remco Gerlich <scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl> wrote:

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> you need only one drunken wizard to code an infinite loop, and your
> driver locks up.

We get around this by using two threads.  The main thread executes the
untrusted code while a second thread keeps watch.  If the main thread
takes too long executing a given event, the second thread kills it by
sending a signal to the process (only works on unix).