[REBOL] Re: Looking over the horizon - Rebol 3
From: moliad:aei:ca at: 11-Nov-2003 22:27
>> do/protect protected-user.r
>>
>> Does this makes sense to any of you?
>>
>> is there already a way to do so?
>>
>do/protect protected-user.r
>->
>secure[file [allow read]]
>do %protect-user.r
I'm not sure the above does exactly what I mean...
I mean that once loaded, anything that is contained in the file is protected. I don't
care if this code writes on disk, I just don't want any later code, to modify the content
of everything which was loaded from that file (passwords, for example) or paths to output
files, or ip addresses to remote servers. Any attempt at tampering them would cause
an error, like normal protected code.
>for ram-cache, i wrote a ramdisk-scheme long ago. which loaded missing files
>from disk and cached. eventually i find it, if you ask. but since it was very
>simple and there are some scheme-examples now, you may have more fun to do it
>yourself ;)
>you have to change files to ram://file, but since the disk is readonly you wil
>trap wrong file-access.
The goal is that you use it without knowing that you are using a protected environment.
so that any disk oriented code runs as-is, but without risk of damaging your HD. also
a simple log function would have to accompany the tool so that you can diagnostic if
its working ok.
basically it could be a replacement for the normal disk port file:// But which has a
listing of all tampered files/dirs along with memory allocated for every file you tried
to edit.
I think Java has something similar, I just don't recall how its named.
-MAx
