[Python-Dev] Reviving restricted mode? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Feb 22 21:10:42 CET 2009


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Tav is interested in using this on app engine, which doesn't care about segfaults -- the process is simply restarted, nobody gains access to information they shouldn't have. App engine does care about overwriting memory,

That doesn't make sense -- how can something not care about segfaults, but care about memory overwriting? If something is capable of causing a segfault, you can't be sure it won't just corrupt memory in some way that doesn't segfault but causes some other problem.

-- Greg



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