Sandboxing [Was Re: killing thread ?]

[Paul Rubin]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> > > Bastion ever protected you against "while 1: pass"
> 
> Hmmm.  Disable 'while': force use of for loops, and limit list
> lengths, and recursion depth and ....

Recursion depth is already limited.  Normally you handle infinite
loops by having the interpreter count the bytecodes it executes,
and stop after some limit.