[racket] Sandbox needs to access preferences? Why?

Yeah, I think it would help a lot to see the call to preferences:* and
then we can figure out either how to eliminate it or to understand why
it can't easily be eliminated and thus access should be granted or the
library avoided or something else.

Robby

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen this occasionally too from rudybot; I'll see if I can get a
> stacktrace next time it happens (doubtful but you never know).
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> Do you get a stacktrace with the error?
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Jordan Johnson <jmj at fellowhuman.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to write a checker script for the handin server (which is running on my Mac), and when i try handing an assignment in to it, I am getting the error that read access to my preferences file is denied:
>>>
>>>  ERROR: file-or-directory-modify-seconds: 'read' access denied for
>>>    /Users/myusername/Library/Preferences/org.racket-lang.prefs.rktd
>>>
>>> In the checker I am creating two evaluators, one using make-evaluator/submission and the other using make-module-evaluator.  I have determined that this definition is provoking the error:
>>> ;;
>>> (define-values (asg-eval solution-eval)
>>>          (parameterize ([sandbox-namespace-specs
>>>                           (list make-base-namespace 'hw/solutions)])
>>>            (values
>>>             (make-evaluator/submission
>>>              '(special intermediate)
>>>              '()
>>>              submission)
>>>             (make-module-evaluator (build-path asg-dir "solution.rkt")))))
>>> ;;
>>>
>>> submission is bound by the handin server's check: macro, and asg-dir is defined thus:
>>> (define asg-dir (build-path server-dir "my-handin-directory-here"))
>>> where server-dir is also provided by the handin server.  solution.rkt is a file I have written in ISL, which depends only on 2htdp/image and a library I've linked as hw/solutions.
>>>
>>> Can you identify what may be triggering the attempt to read preferences, and how I can either avoid it or grant appropriate read permissions?  Thanks...
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jordan
>>>
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