Re: Java

[Doug Geiger <runexe@ntplx.net>]

I'm not sure exactly how java figures out what's 'harmful' and what 
isn't. I imagine file i/o is one of them. You might try looking at 
http://www.javasoft.com/

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On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Stephen Masterman wrote:

>    On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Stephen Masterman wrote:
> 
>    > What is to stop someone from putting a java applet on their home page that,
>    > when run, deletes everything it can on the local hard drive?
>    > 
>    > Steve
>    > 
> 
>    Java has built in blocks that keeps a program from doing any harm to your 
>    system. I suppose someone could still find some way to do something 
>    (perhaps crashing your computer), but I don't think anything permanent 
>    could be done.
> 
> Does this mean that a program written in java can not do file i/o?
> Otherwise, how could the VM know that it was doing "harm" as opposed to
> some necessary file manipulation?
> 
>