Re: Practice Octave online on any website.

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Warren Henning <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Warren Henning <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Practice Octave online on any website.
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 3:43 PM
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:50 PM,
> Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > I doubt you'll find. Allowing to run Octave remotely
> means allowing to
> > grind the server to a halt - imagine one calls Octave
> in a manner which
> > requires too much memory, or on calls 'system' from
> Octave and does what
> > he/she likes within the limits of his/her user ID
> privileges.
> 
> Incorrect. As other websites for general purpose languages
> like Ruby (
> http://tryruby.org/ ) and Scala ( http://www.simplyscala.com/ ) show,
> you just place the process in a resource-limited jail where
> people
> can't do things like system("rm -rf /").
> 
> A "Try Octave" website sounds like a fun project to do.
> 
> Warren


Of course. I even was the one who suggested to run Octave from inside a
VM to avoid such problems.

Regards,
  Sergei.