Re: [Bug-apl] Safe mode is not so safe

[Christian Robert]

Well,

address@hidden:/home/xtian] $ apl --help 2>&1 | fgrep safe
    --safe               safe mode (no shared vars, no native functions)

what is the meaning of "no native functions" ?

to me the Doc should be updated, or some work done to make it true.

juergen will choose.

Xtian.

On 2017-03-29 00:21, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
> I'm implementing an IRC bot that can run arbitrary APL expressions. Since this 
> bot can run code submitted by anyone, I need to ensure that the code can't 
> affect the system where the APL expressions are executed.
>
> This is the purpose of the --safe flag, but I have noted that several 
> destructive operations are still permitted when using this flag.
>
> In particular:
>
>   * SQL operations
>   * FILE_IO
>   * )OUT
>   * )DUMP, )DUMPV, )DUMP-HTML
>   * )COPY, )LOAD, etc…
>   * )HOST
>
> There is probably more, but preventing these would be a good start.
>
> Regards,
> Elias