Suggestion: New D front page

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Adam D.  Ruppe wrote:

>> Sorry to harp on security issues, but what are you doing to protect
>> yourself from those compile and run arbitrary code
>> boxes?
> 
> It runs a separate process which is suid'd to a single purpose
> restricted user that only has access to one directory and a
> number of ulimits in force. So they could in theory write evil
> things, but the operating system won't let it gain much ground.
> 
> I'm currently setting up a separate virtual machine on a different
> domain to handle that, so even if they broke it, the system
> is completely expendable anyway.
> 
> Problems with this would be if someone wanted to set up a network
> spammer or a CPU eater. Perhaps a cron job that loops around
> killing processes would help with that.
> 
> 
> I need to think about it some more. Redirecting the user to
> ideone might end up being the best solution (or dropping the
> feature) but I want to shoot for something higher first.

ideone also has an api you can use, instead of just redirecting