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28 Jul 2024 18:22:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Compiling 3.5 source for Solaris 5.8 / 8  
From: David F  Newman
Date: 2 Aug 2002 15:03:38
Message: <3d4ad78a$1@news.povray.org>
"Mark Gordon" <mtg### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:pan### [at] povrayorg...
> On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 19:27:01 -0400, Micha Riser wrote
>>
> > And what in it to allow everything?
>
> [File I/O Security]
> none
>
> [Shellout Security]
> allowed
>

Just a suggestion, but someone might want to put that into the README.
Or change the error message to be more intuitive.  That drove me nuts!!!!!
I thought it was saying the Unix file permissions were preventing read
access.  I thought the code was broken because trussing the process
showed me that it opened the .pov file and got a valid file descriptor
for it.

-Dave


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