In message <mailman.2115.1281840500.1673.python-l...@python.org>, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On 8/14/10 2:25 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > >> Ok, what about this: run the untrusted code in a separate process, >> if necessary running as a user with different privileges. > > Way too much overhead by a really significant margin: I need to do many, > many, many, many, many very short (often very *very* short) little > scripts. Doing IPC to separate processes, even if they're long-running, > and handling proxying of my objects that these scripts need to read from > and tweak in certain ways, would just kill performance. Not necessarily. How about doing IPC via shared memory? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list