These are some of the documented issues at Safe.pm to which merlyn already referred:

Some Safety Issues

This section is currently just an outline (ed: emphasis mine) of some of the things code in a compartment might do (intentionally or unintentionally) which can have an effect outside the compartment.

Memory
Consuming all (or nearly all) available memory.
CPU
Causing infinite loops etc.
Snooping
Copying private information out of your system. Even something as simple as your user name is of value to others. Much useful information could be gleaned from your environment variables for example.
Signals
Causing signals (especially SIGFPE and SIGALARM) to affect your process.

Setting up a signal handler will need to be carefully considered and controlled. What mask is in effect when a signal handler gets called? If a user can get an imported function to get an exception and call the user's signal handler, does that user's restricted mask get re-instated before the handler is called? Does an imported handler get called with its original mask or the user's one?

State Changes
Ops such as chdir obviously effect the process as a whole and not just the code in the compartment. Ops such as rand and srand have a similar but more subtle effect.
In other words: it's going to be a lot of work and especially with the bunch of Perl geeks that are wandering the Monestary, you are never going to get it safe enough.

Liz

In reply to Re^5: Require everything between innermost <code></code> tags to compile. by liz
in thread Require everything between innermost <code></code> tags to compile. by bobn

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