17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
the interpreter is made "safe" is to take a fully working tcl interpreter (with full priveleges) at run time, and use TclDeleteCommand() to remove offending commands. Safe-TCL is not emasculated at compile time, but at run time.
I have been told by folks at Sun that they are planning on doing it at compile-time as well as at run-time. One of the concerns I conveyed was that I want to make it easy to "pull out" the safe code and give it a security audit.
SafeTcl or Java? I wish SafeTcl was isolated into a separate library with compiled-in safety so I could embed it into my applications. As it is now, I have to just use normal Tcl and hack in the MakeInterpreterSafe() function which removes dangerous commands. -Ray