[Opensim-dev] osFunction Threat levels

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> Paul Fishwick wrote:
>> This looks nice - especially the Examples column so people can get an 
>> idea how to use
>> them. As a related question: is there a way to enable groups in 
>> opensim, since this
>> would also be a good way to restrict the running of scripts, or even 
>> scripts containing
>> os functions, to only those who are members in a specific group. I 
>> looked through
>> the opensim.ini.example, but couldn't see such functionality.
> 
> Group code is still unimplemented in OpenSim.  I'm kind of surprised 
> actually, since these greenfield things have usually been filled in 
> pretty quickly (I mean, wasn't there even someone offering cash for an 
> implementation not long ago that they would donate back?)
> 
> Also, I would like to point out that I just discovered an older parallel 
> page for os functions at
> 
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/LSL_osFunctions
> 
> If someone or some people could amalgamate the info there with Ai's page 
> then that would be really cool.

Oh never mind - I just realized that this is largely a page of proposed functions, not implemented ones.

Unfortunately, it's the first page that comes up on Google :)

> 
>>
>>  
>> -p
>>
>> Ai Austin wrote:
>>> Justin has been helping me get on top of osFunctions, and the Wiki 
>>> hopefully entry now is more comprehensive...
>>>       http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OSSL_Implemented
>>>
>>> In my review of the threat levels of the various functions, 
>>> osRegionRestart seems to be wrongly set.  Can we discuss?  I would 
>>> consider this Severe or Critical.  To keep it separate to "usual" 
>>> functionality and messaging style things.
>>>
>>> A comment on function code itself (thanks to Justin for this) says:
>>>
>>>              // This is High here because region restart is not reliable
>>>              // it may result in the region staying down or becoming
>>>              // unstable. This should be changed to Low or VeryLow once
>>>              // The underlying functionality is fixed, since the 
>>> security
>>>              // as such is sound
>>>              //
>>>
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