On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/3/5 Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com>: >> 05.03.12 11:09, Victor Stinner написав(ла): >> >>> pysandbox uses SIGALRM with a timeout of 5 seconds by default. You can >>> change this timeout or disable it completly. >>> >>> pysandbox doesn't provide a function to limit the memory yet, you have >>> to do it manually. It's not automatic because there is no portable way >>> to implement such limit and it's difficult to configure it. For my IRC >>> bot using pysandbox, setrlimit() is used with RLIMIT_AS. >> >> >> But it does not work for extensive C-calculations. `sum(xrange(1000000000))` >> runs 2.5 minutes on my computer instead of 5 seconds, and `map(sum, >> [xrange(1000000000)] * 1000000)` -- almost infinity time. pysandbox doesn't >> provide a reliable time limit too, it is also necessary to mention. > > Ah yes, I realized that SIGALRM is handled by the C signal handler, > but Python only handles the signal later. sum() doesn't call > PyErr_CheckSignals() to check for pending signals.
Just forbid the sandboxed code from using the signal module, and set the signal to the default action (abort). > Apply the timeout would require to modify the sum() function. A more > generic solution would be to use a subprocess. Maybe it would make more sense to add such a test to xrange()? (Maybe not every iteration but every 10 or 100 iterations.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
