From: Christian Boos <cboos@...>
Date: 2001-12-18T01:16:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28789] Re: RDoc - Document Ruby source files



-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Bokovoy [mailto:a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 3:30 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:28769] Re: RDoc - Document Ruby source files


On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:19:11PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net> writes:
>
> > Is there a way to execute some code inside your application in an
isolated
> > environment and reliably catch all errors/context without crashing own
> > application in case when some unresolved symbols or something like that
> > are exist?
>
> Yes, but... is there any way to supply that code with the data it
> needs to run? And are you sure you want me to execute the
> "initiate_self_destruct" method?
Of course, not :)

 Why not? :)

Some kind of combination of chroot() to launch an auxilliary
interpreter in a sandbox, and drb (distributed Ruby) to connect
that application, then it can well self_destruct whatever it wants :)

-- Christian