Francois Dispot <woz### [at] club-internetfr> wrote:
: Warp and Ron gave good ideas.

  I really hope that the guy who tried to hack that povray-site mentioned
in p.general did not get his ideas from that thread. I would feel quite
guilty if he/she did... :(
  (Although there wasn't anything in that thread that couldn't be
deduced reading the povray documentation...)

: If you make a scene featuring an infinite loop adding objects to an
: union, you will have POV crash after running out of memory.
: Unfortunately it is likely that some other processes die to, including
: system services.

  If it's a basic unix system, there shouldn't be any danger.
  I have run out of memory several times (even when running povray) and
nothing special has happened. The program just ended with an "out of memory".

  In Unix you can also limit the amount of memory a user can allocate.

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

  "The derivative of sin(2x) is cos(2x)"  - Matt Giwer

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