Wolfgang Wieser wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> 
>>In article <411a62cc@news.povray.org> , Wolfgang Wieser
>><wwi### [at] nospamgmxde>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>POVRay for UNIX does not exit with a non-zero exit status when an Error(..)
>>>occurs (such as during parsing).
>>
>>One could also just call exit ... on the other hand, a clean way would
>>certainly be to assign the error code to a variable an return that.  Your
>>code certainly is not a clean solution.
>>
> 
> Well... UNIX povray actually will never exit() but instead go though some 
> longjmp into the cooperate funcion which will then return to main or throw 
> some exception. It took me some time until I finally figured out what was 
> actually going on here and I was really wondering if the present state 
> can be called a "clean solution"...
> 
> But I'm sure, Nicolas will come up with something better. :)
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
can i assume this might have a bearing on problems found using 
emacs/xemacs pov-mode 2.10 and pov-ray 3.6

previously reported/posted and pooh-poohed(sp?) as a possible problem
istr a suggestion of contacting pov-mode author as well

oh well time for ROFL

stephen

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