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Re: probably faqs


> Hmm.  Security, good point.  For what I'm doing at the moment, security
> isn't an issue.
> But that does interest me.  Is there an eqivalent of, say, safe tcl?  Any
> interest or plans?  (I'd volunteer to work on it, if there is interest...)

I've got lots of interest - client protocols are a major PITA, and guile
can provide that with minimal effort on my part, but I don't want to be
giving away too much access. Ideally, I'd give the client 'sandbox' guile,
perhaps with a single 'authenticate' function defined. Once authenication
passes,  the client would get more power, with sensitive stuff (like disk
access) available only through wrappers.

I don't know if this is already possible; I'm not working on this area at
the moment, and I know guile's module system is being overhauled, which I
expect will affect this situation.

-Eric