Bug#838969: ITP: lua-sandbox -- Generic Lua sandbox for dynamic data analysis
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Raphaël Hertzog" <hertzog@debian.org>
* Package name : lua-sandbox
Version : 1.0.3
Upstream Author : Mike Trinkala
* URL : https://github.com/mozilla-services/lua_sandbox
* License : Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
Programming Lang: C
Description : Generic Lua sandbox for dynamic data analysis
Sandboxes provide a dynamic and isolated execution environment for data
parsing, transformation, and analysis. They allow access to data without
jeopardizing the integrity or performance of the processing
infrastructure. This broadens the audience that the data can be exposed to
and facilitates new uses of the data (i.e. debugging, monitoring, dynamic
provisioning, SLA analysis, intrusion detection, ad-hoc reporting, etc.)
The Lua sandbox is a library allowing customized control over the Lua
execution environment including functionality like global data
preservation/restoration on shutdown/startup, output collection in textual
or binary formats and an array of parsers for various data types (Nginx,
Apache, Syslog, MySQL and many RFC grammars)
Features
* small - memory requirements are as little as 8 KiB for a basic sandbox
* fast - microsecond execution times
* stateful - ability to resume where it left off after a restart/reboot
* isolated - failures are contained and malfunctioning
sandboxes are terminated. Containment is defined in terms of restriction
to the operating system, file system, libraries, memory use, Lua
instruction use, and output size.
More information at http://mozilla-services.github.io/lua_sandbox
This package will be maintained in the pkg-heka team:
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-heka
This package is a dependency of hindsight.
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