Fork of maxima for make it more embeddable.

I understand, that web ui to one lisp machine for multiple remote users is
dangerous project. I am doing it only for "personal use", now:)

Goal of fork to provide maxima from quicklisp. Maxima big project and I
need community opinion about fork. I am ready to merge my changes with
main repo. Only non-mathematical parts were changed by me.

Also it will be possible to develop some maxima graphical interface
using pure-lisp
solutions.

2011/12/23 Steve Haflich <smh at franz.com>:
> Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> ? The most appealing solution to these problems is to run some kind of
> ? virtual machine.
>
> I have some experience with the issue of multiple users in a single Lisp
> execution.
>
> As a practical matter, it cannot be made secure such that one hostile
> user is prevented from affecting other users, or harming the Lisp
> execution itself. ?I could discuss detaild, but instead if anyone
> provided me with a multi-user maxima that isn't restricted in ways that
> limit maima, I'm sure I could crack it.
>
> If the goal is to create a server that can support multiple remote users
> to use Maxima, running each user in a sepaate VM isn't efficient.
> Duplicate vm's require duplicating memory for the entire OS. ?The VM,
> properly configured, protects your local machine against access or
> attacks from a remote user. ?But if you need to protect users from one
> another, that isn't enough. ?You should instead launch a separate
> Maxina/Lisp execution for each connecting user, within a single vm, and
> you should use permissions and chroot to ensure that each maxima
> execution cannot harm the vm. ?Even that is hard, but probably
> achievable.



-- 
With best regards, Michael Filonenko