Re: Specification for Trusted PLs? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Specification for Trusted PLs?
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Msg-id 20100521162220.GA23505@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Specification for Trusted PLs?  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Re: Specification for Trusted PLs?
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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:57:33AM -0400, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > So, here's a working definition:
> >
> > 1) cannot directly read or write files on the server.
> > 2) cannot bind network ports
> 
> To make that more covering, don't yu really need something like
> "cannot communicate with outside processes"?

These need to be testable conditions, and new tests need to get added
any time we find that we've missed something.  Making this concept
fuzzier is exactly the wrong direction to go.

Cheers,
David.
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