From: George <george.marrows@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T04:45:48+09:00
Subject: Re: When little languages grow...


> I hear ya.  I wish there was a way to open a jailed namespace.  It'd
be
> like chroot'ing into a module.  The sandbox module would be
addressable
> from ::Object, but would only include a limited set of modules when
> offered under chroot.

Sounds like capability security, where - to super-simplify - you can
only access the objects/functionality you can name. It's used by the E
language - see a good description at

http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/ewalnut.html#SEC42

My guess though is that Ruby is too 'sloppy' for such a thing to work
fully securely. I'd be very happy to be proved wrong!

-- George