From: Your worst nightmare... (lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu)
Date: 10/26/92


From: lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Your worst nightmare...)
Subject: A few kernel and ps and free questions and Re: POV raytracer
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 18:43:17 EST

In article <3436@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> pdp@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page) writes:
>Has anyone ported the POV raytracing program to Linux as yet ?
>
>
I got it to compile. Basically all you have to do is rip matherr out of unix.c
and declare it void or some such thing. Its been a while, so I've forgotten.
If you are trying to compile it with 2.2.2 don't. It will dump core and give
floating point exceptions when you try to do some of the sample files. If you
are using 2.2.2d you are in luck, even the X11 part compiles correctly. If
there is enough interest I can upload the binaries to either tsx-11 or sunsite,
(binary actually), but it pretty much compiles right out of the box. I have the
ionic5 image as my root window image. Nice picture.

ObLinuxQuestion:
    In the SLS 0.98 release of ps is there any way to list the actula command
    like the 0.96/0.97 version did? like instead of listing just kermit as
    the command, it would list kermit -i -l/dev/modem -pe. I used to use the ps
    listing to tell if I made a mistake and I kind of miss it. Also, is there
    a way to get free to recognize the swap device. I had to do /bin/swapon
    manually in the rc rather than putting it in /etc/fstab file. Would that
    cause it to not see the swap partition when I type free -s ? Thirdly and
    finally, what is the correct definition for inet_proto_ops as found in the
    file sock.c ?(for tcp sockets) I grabbed the protocols.h file, and it still
    gives that error. I'm hoping to use some programs that require tcp and I
    need that in the kernel. Thanks everyone for such a wonderful operating
    system!

-Louis Ruppert
lruppert@mailbox.syr.edu