Re: Is lua secure?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Is it a good idea to write suid programms using lua?

suid programms are always sutble when it comes to security.

> if it is hard to make lua programms secure

Pure Lua is secure; you cannot crash the host app from Lua.
Of course, pure Lua does not get you much; you need libraries.
Lua with libraries is as secure as the functions exported from the libraries.
--lhf