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Karl,
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 05:08:46PM +0200, karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
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> > It's a shame that geda moved other way around having all means
> > and whose interpreter just _reads_ sexps natively.)
> ...
> 
> Wasn't that about not risking evildoing commands in files inported
> from elsewhere. It would be nice have a crippled (a mean safe)
> interpreter for such cases, like gs -dSAFER, perl taint, openocd 
> jimtcl, debian fakeroot (in a way), etc.
> 
> Is there any such thing for scheme ?
> It could possible be a preload lib, removing "for config files
> unsafe syscalls".
> 
> If we had that, the rationale for the ini files wouldn't hold any
> more.

Sorry for delay.

Do you mean something like this?

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Sandboxed-Evaluation.html

Well, there are simpler ways.  For example, we could just use a
declarative style of config in Scheme instead of executable
rc commands like Guix does.

  Vladimir