Re: Simple Lua for scripts

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Rici Lake wrote:
> ...
> It is perhaps slightly surprising that sandboxing Lua is quite simple, 
> compared with other scripting languages. I hope that this feature will 
> continue to receive high priority as the Lua packaging system develops.

Speaking of which, has anyone done any work on a "sandboxed" version of 
the os library? Something that constrains what the user can do to a set 
of directories or a set of restrictive permissions, or even one that 
prevents writing entirely. If this were a drop-in replacement for the os 
library, it could help a lot with this sort of sandboxing.

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