[VPM] perl process security

[Darren Duncan]

At 4:15 PM -0700 7/8/06, Jer A wrote:
>hello all,
>I am working on a project and need some security advice. how secure are
>strings running in perl process? I am using string scalars to inject/embed
>(Ruby/Python)code into a Ruby/Python etc, piped child processes. considering
>the user does not have access to the perl code, how can I lockdown a perl
>process to prevent perl scalar memory from being read, from outside the
>process? also is there any security risk when passing  data (scalar string
>values (large ones)) to a child process?
>Thanks in advance for all your help.
>-Jeremy A

This question is something you should read your operating system 
documentation for, as that is where it is handled, if the feature 
exists at all.  Normally a protected memory OS will stop this. -- 
Darren Duncan