Dec. 2, 2008
9:30 p.m.
my question was more how can the VM be fixed :)
That's not a VM issue. It's not even a Smalltalk issue. It is just common sense to not run anything reachable in public as root. There is nothing to be fixed. As a developer you usually want to be able to freely interact with the rest of the world (FFI, Aliens, OSProcess, etc), but keep the risk of a system break-in as low as possible. Also see the recent discussion in the Squeak mailing-list about that: <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132679....>. Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch