Re: limiting subroutine run time

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--- Perrin Harkins <perrin@xxxx.xxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 21:43 -0700, Igor Chudov
> wrote:
> > These user submitted perl scripts will be executed
> > inside Safe.pm compartment. I hope that they will
> be
> > secure enough.
> 
> It won't be, if someone is determined to damage your
> system.

Can you be a little more specific? Are you talking
about damage such as abuse of resources, or are you
talking about gaining unauthorized privileges?

 
> > My question is, is there some way to limit
> execution
> > time of a subroutine?
> 
> You can use Apache::Resource to set limits on CPU. 
> It will kill the
> process if it goes over, but this is probably for
> the best.

Thanks. I will try using alarm also.
i

- Igor



		
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