[erlang-questions] Preventing calling some functions

[Zoltan Lajos Kis]

Hi,

I don't see why I should have more trust and confidence in the creator 
of the server application itself then in the creator of a plugin.
If I want to restrict a plugin from doing something particular on my 
machines, I would restrict the server itself in the first place.

Your second point sounds like "defensive programming". See: 
http://www.erlang.se/doc/programming_rules.shtml#HDR11

Regards,
Zoltan.

Vasilij Savin wrote:
> Hej Mazen,
>
> Actually there several valid reason for restricting access.
>
> First of all, security, you do not want every plugin to be able to access
> sensitive services to prevent malicious sabotage through plugins.
>
> Secondly, the quality of plugins is not guaranteed and they might
> inadvertently crash the system due to bugs in them.
>
> Regards,
> Vasilij Savin
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Mazen Harake <
> mazen.harake@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm curious to why you want to have this restriction in place? The only
>> thing I can come up with is if you have a proprietary reason. If you don't
>> then I am _really_ curious because I don't see why restricting a user to do
>> what ever he/she wants is of any benefit (assuming that we are talking about
>> plugins now)?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> /Mazen
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/12/2009 13:06, Kiran Khaladkar wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> hi,
>>> I have a server written in which i allow erlang plugins also. But the
>>> problem is i dont want the plugin code the call certain functions such as
>>> 'gen_tcp:listen' etc .. The plugin writer should not be able to call certain
>>> functions thought he might know all the erlang lib.
>>> Can anyone suggest a way to do such a thing??
>>> regards,
>>>
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