Re: Emacs RPC security

[Stefan Monnier]

> The natural way (and only way, I believe) to provide a restricted
> execution environment in Common Lisp is to leave the user in a package
> that contains only "safe" symbols. As elisp does not have packages in
> the CL sense, the only way I can think of would be to not use the
> elisp reader at all, and provide you own – or else go through the read
> form and excise forbidden symbols. This seems like a nontrivial (and
> somewhat pointless?) endeavour.

Indeed.  The way to do it in Elisp is to not use `eval' but instead
implement some other protocol/language.  Which is why it's outside the
scope of server.el.


        Stefan