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author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2005-08-30 01:27:40 (GMT) |
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committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2005-08-30 01:27:40 (GMT) |
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Remove rexec howto; it's kind of pointless now
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/rexec.tex b/Doc/howto/rexec.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 44a0b30..0000000 --- a/Doc/howto/rexec.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,61 +0,0 @@ -\documentclass{howto} - -\title{Restricted Execution HOWTO} - -\release{2.1} - -\author{A.M. Kuchling} -\authoraddress{\email{amk@amk.ca}} - -\begin{document} - -\maketitle - -\begin{abstract} -\noindent - -Python 2.2.2 and earlier provided a \module{rexec} module running -untrusted code. However, it's never been exhaustively audited for -security and it hasn't been updated to take into account recent -changes to Python such as new-style classes. Therefore, the -\module{rexec} module should not be trusted. To discourage use of -\module{rexec}, this HOWTO has been withdrawn. - -The \module{rexec} and \module{Bastion} modules have been disabled in -the Python CVS tree, both on the trunk (which will eventually become -Python 2.3alpha2 and later 2.3final) and on the release22-maint branch -(which will become Python 2.2.3, if someone ever volunteers to issue -2.2.3). - -For discussion of the problems with \module{rexec}, see the python-dev -threads starting at the following URLs: -\url{http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-December/031160.html}, -and -\url{http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/031848.html}. - -\end{abstract} - - -\section{Version History} - -Sep. 12, 1998: Minor revisions and added the reference to the Janus -project. - -Feb. 26, 1998: First version. Suggestions are welcome. - -Mar. 16, 1998: Made some revisions suggested by Jeff Rush. Some minor -changes and clarifications, and a sizable section on exceptions added. - -Oct. 4, 2000: Checked with Python 2.0. Minor rewrites and fixes made. -Version number increased to 2.0. - -Dec. 17, 2002: Withdrawn. - -Jan. 8, 2003: Mention that \module{rexec} will be disabled in Python 2.3, -and added links to relevant python-dev threads. - -\end{document} - - - - |