On 02/28/11 16:10, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrand<har...@alvestrand.no> wrote:
On 02/28/11 15:55, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
On 2/28/11, Harald Alvestrand<har...@alvestrand.no> wrote:
On 02/28/11 15:35, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
In effect, you want to create pipelines in JS/ES?
I need pipelines that can be manipulated from Javascript, yes.
Javascript is not a millisecond-precise language; the running of the
pipelines has to happen elsewhere.
Would POSIX sh suffice for your purposes?
The simplest solution I can think of is using sh pipes and standardized
device names.
The idea of letting anyone's Javascript execute posix sh commands on my
mother's laptop fills me with an abject sense of horror..... no, I can't
imagine a security model in which that would be the right answer to the
question.
Run them without privileges and you should be fine. In fact, access
to anything but stdin, stdout and stderr could be denied if you open the
media a priori.
(not to mention that some of the devices that execute Javascript and
have cameras and microphones attached don't HAVE a posix shell).
Smells of odd priorities to have JavaScript but not sh.
Phones.
