From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-12-08T04:02:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20410] Re: Behavior: autoload calls rb_require() directly

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:18:40 +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> Tomas Matousek wrote:
>> But this only means we are missing a sandbox feature. If there was a
>> simple way how to create a new sandboxed environment and execute a Ruby
>> script within it and then remotely inspect the results then irb could
>> use that.
>> 
>> BTW: You can do it in IronRuby: :)
> 
> JRuby as well, either by instantiating a new JRuby instance directly or
> by using Evan Phoenix's MVM API (which does the same thing under the
> covers.
> 
> There is also work going on to add MVM support to 1.9. Check out the
> branch, I believe it's functional already (or very close). Talk to ko1
> or nobu if you have more questions about that implementation. We will
> match Ruby-level APIs as they evolve.
> 
> - Charlie

Could a sandbox feature like these (or why's) be used to protect the core?

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/