[Python-Dev] doc for new restricted execution design for Python (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Jun 27 20:06:30 CEST 2006

On 6/27/06, Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at acm.org> wrote:

Brett Cannon wrote: > On 6/27/06, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >> Caps and current usage should also be available (though read-only) >> from python; it is quite sensible to spill some cache when getting too >> close to your memory limit. > > Yeah, being able to read your restrictions seems reasonable to do from an > untrusted interpreter. Certainly in some cases I'd like to run a Python program that claims it "plays nice" without its being able to see that it is in jail. Otherwise I can't escalate my trust of the code based on old behavior (it might be nice only when the jailer is around). So, reading your restrictions is a capability I'd like to be able to control.

Sounds reasonable.

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