Hole(3pm)
NAME
Safe::Hole - make a hole to the original main compartment in the Safe
compartment
SYNOPSIS
use Safe;
use Safe::Hole;
$cpt = new Safe;
$hole = new Safe::Hole {};
sub test { Test->test; }
$Testobj = new Test;
# $cpt->share('&test'); # alternate as next line
$hole->wrap(\&test, $cpt, '&test');
# ${$cpt->varglob('Testobj')} = $Testobj; # alternate as next line
$hole->wrap($Testobj, $cpt, '$Testobj');
$cpt->reval('test; $Testobj->test;');
print $@ if $@;
package Test;
sub new { bless {},shift(); }
sub test { my $self = shift; $self->test2; }
sub test2 { print "Test->test2 called\n"; }
DESCRIPTION
- We can call outside defined subroutines from the Safe compartment
- using share(), or can call methods through the object that is copied
into the Safe compartment using varglob(). But that subroutines or
methods are executed in the Safe compartment too, so they cannot call
another subroutines that are dinamically qualified with the package
name such as class methods nor can they compile code that uses opcodes that are forbidden within the compartment.
Through Safe::Hole, we can execute outside defined subroutines in the- original main compartment from the Safe compartment.
Note that if a subroutine called through Safe::Hole::call does a- Carp::croak() it will report the error as having occured within
Safe::Hole. This can be avoided by including Safe::Hole::User in the
@ISA for the package containing the subroutine. - Methods
- new [NAMESPACE]
- Class method. Backward compatible constructor.
NAMESPACE is the alternate root namespace that makes the
- compartment in which call() method execute the subroutine. Default of NAMESPACE means the current 'main'. This emulates the behaviour of Safe-Hole-0.08 and earlier.
- new \%arguments
- Class method. Constructor.
The constructor is called with a hash reference providing the
- constructor arguments. The argument ROOT specifies the alternate
root namespace for the object. If the ROOT argument is not
specified then Safe::Hole object will attempt restore as much as it can of the environment in which it was constrtucted. This includes the opcode mask, %INC and @INC. If a root namespace is specified
then it would not make sense to restore the %INC and @INC from
main:: so this is not done. Also if a root namespace is given the opcode mask is not restored either. - call $coderef [,@args]
- Object method.
Call the subroutine refered by $coderef in the compartment that
- is specified with constructor new. @args are passed as the
arguments to the called $coderef. Note that the arguments are not currently passed by reference although this may change in a future version. - wrap $ref [,$cpt ,$name]
- Object method.
If $ref is a code reference, this method returns the anonymous
- subroutine reference that calls $ref using call() method of
Safe::Hole (see above).
If $ref is a class object, this method makes a wrapper class of
- that object and returns a new object of the wrapper class. Through
the wrapper class, all original class methods called using call()
method of Safe::Hole.
If $cpt as Safe object and $name as subroutine or scalar name
- specified, this method works like share() method of Safe. When $ref
is a code reference $name must like '&subroutine'. When $ref is a
object $name must like '$var'.Name $name may not be same as referent of $ref. For example:
$hole->wrap(\&foo, $cpt, '&bar');
$hole->wrap(sub{...}, $cpt, '&foo');
$hole->wrap($objfoo, $cpt, '$objbar'); - root
Object method.Return the namespace that is specified with constructor new().If no namespace was then root() returns 'main'.
- Warning
- You MUST NOT share the Safe::Hole object with the Safe compartment. If you do it the Safe compartment is NOT safe.
- This module provides a means to go from a state where an opcode is
denied back to a state where it is not. Reasonable care has been taken to ensure that programs cannot simply manipulate the internals to the
Safe::Hole object to reduce the opmask in effect. However there may
still be a way that the authors have not considered. In particular it relies on the fact that a Perl program cannot change stuff inside the
magic on a Perl variable. If you install a module that allows a Perl
program to fiddle inside the magic then this assuption breaks down.
One would hope that any system that was running un-trusted code would
not have such a module installed.
AUTHORS
Sey Nakajima <nakajima@netstock.co.jp>, Brian McCauley
<nobull@cpan.org>
SEE ALSO
POD ERRORS
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
below:
- Around line 230:
- '=item' outside of any '=over'
- Around line 236:
- You forgot a '=back' before '=head2'