Stephan Kuhagen wrote: > timmy <"timothy at open-networks.net"> wrote: > > This sub-thread starts to become a flame-war, isn't it? Calm down, both of > you... No need to fight, when only some ideas for a technical question are > requested.
i'm not fighting, sometimes i can be a little terse for that i aplogise. > > >>as posted before, linux kernel limit. >> >>then you and your users can go as crazy as you want and you won't take >>out your system. > > > The problem with linux kernel limits are, that they won't work really good > on MacOSX and Windows... OTOH the idea is the right one, but the effect can > be achieved inside of Python. Since Python does byte compile the code and > the interpreter evaluates each byte code token in one evaluation step. The > interpreter could be extended for such usecases to count and limit the > number of evaluation steps allowed for untrusted script or methods in > untrusted script as well as to limit the recursion depth or memory to be > allocated. idunno sounds like a lot of trouble to engineer a solution that has already got a solution. all win NT systems have resource managment and i imagine OS X would as well?? > > Regards > Stephan > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list