[racket] Limiting net-repl provided functions

Thanks Sam,

I'll take (yet) another look at those.

BTW, 'secure' in this context may mean allowing even critical system calls
(say format harddisk), if so specified. But the user should not be able to
do anything else than specified.

br, jukka


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samth0 at gmail.com [mailto:samth0 at gmail.com]On Behalf Of Sam
> Tobin-Hochstadt
> Sent: 27 June 2011 16:10
> To: Jukka Tuominen
> Cc: users at racket-lang.org
> Subject: Re: [racket] Limiting net-repl provided functions
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Jukka Tuominen
> <jukka.tuominen at finndesign.fi> wrote:
> >
> > The basic client/server functionality is already working, but
> it's too big a
> > security risk outside LAN use. It seems to be easier to add
> functionality
> > than ripping them off. Perhaps creating a custom #%top definition to
> > interfere with the default symbol lookup...?
>
> The right place to look is at sandboxes:
>   http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Sandboxed_Evaluation.html
> and namespaces:
>   http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/mk-namespace.html
>
> --
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu