Re: newproxy surprise... anything else out there I should be worried about???

[Henk Boom <henk@...>]

With a sandboxed environment properly using a whitelist, the api could
have an undocumented function destroy_all_user_data and it wouldn't
matter.

    henk

On 7 August 2010 10:41, HyperHacker <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 21:17, Erik Cassel <erik@roblox.com> wrote:
>> Buyer beware !
>>
>> Thank you again.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:10 PM, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Erik Cassel <erik@roblox.com> wrote:
>>>> The wiki article you pointed out is a great review of what is out
>>>> there, but it doesn't mention newproxy either :-)
>>>
>>> Now it does: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SandBoxes .  It also now states
>>> "You should not rely on the manual providing a complete list of
>>> functions (e.g. HiddenFeatures)."
>>>
>>
>
> Now I'm curious why these features aren't in the manual? Even if they
> are unsupported/experimental, isn't it better to document them with a
> warning than not at all?
>
> --
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