Johannes Dahlstrom <sad### [at] tkukoulufi> wrote:
> Hmm... Wouldn't that be quite easy if the computers were connected through 
> a LAN and shared a directory? Each instance could just write the number of 
> the frame they are rendering to their own file and then check the other 
> instance's file if the frame number is same?

  That still leaves the problem that they *might* start rendering the
same frame when they meet. Of course this is extremely improbable (perhaps
one possibility in millions) so in practice it's not a problem.

  An easier solution would be to simply check if the image file which the
process is going to render next already exists (file_exists()).

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