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"Gilles Fedak" <fed### [at] lrifr> wrote in message
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> Tom Melly wrote:
> > What version are you going to run? Also, presumably you won't
> > allow any external files (image maps and hfs, etc.) or i/o
> > access.
> Well, we can support several versions as I understand there are
> currently two main versions of PovRay, PovRay 3.1 and Patched or
> MegaovRay.

  At least three versions of MegaPOV..  :-)  Things like particle
systems, cloth simulation, procedural texturing, aren't there yet..

> Concerning I/O, actually we work as this: if you want to submit a
> task (of an application in general) you give a file which is the
> stdin file,  a zip file which is a compressed directory containing
> all the files requested for the execution of the task, and the
> command line.

    The issue here is that Povray in and of itself allows you to
directly open files, execute command, etc..

> The worker (remote PC) unzips the dir, jumps  into, execute the
> command line, inject the stdin file. So you see that's it is quite
> simple and ad hoc. Right now we don't support some kind of
> "throttle" mecanism for limiting bandwith, or size of
>  the genrated files.

    But thats the kicker..  I can then have a script that opens any
file, and can read and write from/to it.  I could make a .rhosts
entry..  :-(

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