[Flightgear-devel] Time for a new release?

2007-03-30 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, It hasn't been discussed for at least a couple of months, so I thought I'd bring up that old chestnut, "when are we going to have a new release?". >From the website, here are the pervious release dates: 0.9.5 - 2004/07 0.9.6 - 2004/10 0.9.8 - 2005/01 0.9.9 - 2005/11 0.9.10 - 2006/04

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Andy Ross
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Functionally, it seems reasonable to force all IO access through a > wrapper .nas file in $FG_ROOT/Nasal that could attempt to restrict > dangerous activities. This is actually possible, albeit obtuse. In the existing io.nas file (which currently adds the soft-coded readf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 30 March 2007: > And if someone does a $ ln -s / ~/.fgfs/foo, why not?! Assuming that Nasal/IO can't make such links itself, of course. ;-) m. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Gene Buckle -- Friday 30 March 2007: > Would it be reasonable to add a RESTRICT_IO define within Nasal itself > that stripped any path data from a filename and forced it to /tmp or some > other default directory specified by a non-nasal Nasal configuration file? Not sure what you mean with "Nasa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Stuart Buchanan -- Friday 30 March 2007: > > Functionally, it seems reasonable to force all IO access through a > wrapper > > .nas file in $FG_ROOT/Nasal that could attempt to restrict dangerous > > activities. > > But every Nasal code would have to have access to use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Gene Buckle
> * Stuart Buchanan -- Friday 30 March 2007: > > Functionally, it seems reasonable to force all IO access through a wrapper > > .nas file in $FG_ROOT/Nasal that could attempt to restrict dangerous > > activities. > > But every Nasal code would have to have access to use those > wrapper/validator fu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Stuart Buchanan -- Friday 30 March 2007: > Functionally, it seems reasonable to force all IO access through a wrapper > .nas file in $FG_ROOT/Nasal that could attempt to restrict dangerous > activities. But every Nasal code would have to have access to use those wrapper/validator functions ... a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Curtis Olson
I don't know the right answer to any of this, but what I do know is that the internet is a much different place compared to a few years ago when we launched the FlightGear project. Originally the internet was much like a university, not without it's problems, but generally you could assume that e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Nasal (in SimGear) already had support for file I/O since the > last Nasal update, but the line that would have activated it was > commented out until yesterday. The now available Nasal "io" > module allows some interesting stuff, such as direct appending > of OBJECT ent

[Flightgear-devel] nasal iolib & security

2007-03-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Nasal (in SimGear) already had support for file I/O since the last Nasal update, but the line that would have activated it was commented out until yesterday. The now available Nasal "io" module allows some interesting stuff, such as direct appending of OBJECT entries to *.stg files from nasal code.