On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Enlightenment SVN
> <no-re...@enlightenment.org> wrote:
>> Log:
>> elev8: Allow loading modules in runtime
>>
>> There are now two kinds of modules: native (.so) and JavaScript (.js). Both
>> modules can be loaded using the same interface and is completely transparent
>> to the application developer, by using the global require() function. For
>> example, to load the elementary module:
>>
>> elm = require('elm');
>>
>> This will try to open 'libelm.so' in the current directory, then 'libelm.so'
>> in elev8's module directory. If that fails, it will try to open 'elm.js' in
>> the current directory, then 'elm.js' in elev8's directory. Should any of
>> these attempts work, it will save the module in an internal cache and return
>> a reference to an object containing all exported symbols from that module.
>
> That's a really great update. I really like this new activity in
> elev8. I have just a little concern about security. I would have
Yeah, our plan is to take JS to a first class citizen in EFL :-)
> choosen a different order. First I would have tried system module (in
> elev8's module directory), then I would have tried 'elm.js' in elev8's
> system directory. If all that's failed, I will try current directory,
> maybe first the javascript ('elm.js') and the module. Reason is that
> .so in current directory are much more likely to contain some nasty
> code. If by just putting a file in the right place I can inject native
> code, that's sound bad to me.
humn... if you can put a file in the same dir, why don't you replace
the original code with whatever code you would like to execute?
Lucas De Marchi
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