POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : WARNING: #exec and safety : Re: WARNING: #exec and safety Server Time
30 Jul 2024 14:19:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: WARNING: #exec and safety  
From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 20 Oct 1999 07:50:26
Message: <380dac82@news.povray.org>
Remco de Korte <rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote:
: A command line switch wouldn't do. Somebody already mentioned that you'd
: probably put that in an inifile and forget about it.

  I mentioned it myself. Of course it's not perfect, but at least it's better
than nothing.
  At least if you try to render a scene downloaded from a strange place,
you can check that it will not do any system calls nor file writings before
you render it.

: Prompting with every
: POV-session would be better I think (as with the file-saving). I don't know if
: this is as easy on all platforms.

  It's very difficult to achieve this kind of prompting with ANSI C.
  It also would be extremely tedious if you would need to answer to a
prompt every time you render your own scene.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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