I would like to run povray from cgi/apache/linux.
I get Segmentation fault and strace prints:

ioctl(0, TCGETS, 0xbfffe540) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

If I understan this well, it tries to read terminal information
(to use it for output format later?) but there is no terminal
when it is run on apache. Similar problems (?) were already
reported but never answerd:
http://news.povray.org/povray.programming/30970/
http://news.povray.org/povray.unix/27230/

How to go around this? How to disable ioctl() in povray, or
how to define terminal on apache. Or is it something else?

Thanks
Radim

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IIRC, someone suggested a fix for this (it's a bug in unix.cpp).
  I suppose it will be fixed in the next release.

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In article <web.3f0a839eda61587057737bee0@news.povray.org> , "blazek" 
<bla### [at] itcit> wrote:

> I would like to run povray from cgi/apache/linux.

That is an extremely bad idea!  By no means POV-Ray is meant for such a
security-sensitive application.

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> That is an extremely bad idea!  By no means POV-Ray is meant for such a
> security-sensitive application.

  I don't think it's too dangerous to run POV-Ray under a dedicated
account using file access restrictions (both POV-Ray's own and the ones
provided by the OS).
  The only way to misuse this kind of service would be to make POV-Ray
use tons of memory, but even this can be limited by the OS (man limit).

  Naturally, no-one can guarantee that POV-Ray has no security holes,
but that's the same thing as with *every* software out there (including
apache and linux itself).

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