[Haskell-cafe] Safe Haskell?

Tom Ellis tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017 at jaguarpaw.co.uk
Fri Apr 16 19:38:04 UTC 2021


On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 03:31:20PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
> I did use SafeHaskell long ago, to provide a server that executed
> student code in a class ...  I now believe that this use case is far
> better served by virtualization, which is now a quite well-supported
> feature across all major operating systems.

Tangentially I'd like to plug an excellent resource for this that I
recently discovered:

> NsJail is a process isolation tool for Linux. It utilizes Linux
> namespace subsystem, resource limits, and the seccomp-bpf syscall
> filters of the Linux kernel.

https://github.com/google/nsjail/#overview

It's an extremely impressive program!  It allows isolation of system
resources at a very fine-grained level.

Tom


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