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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
> > From my experience, it seems that POV (or, to be precise, MegaPOV 1.2.1,
> > but I guess there shouldn't be a difference there) for Unix does not
> > issue an exit code when terminating prematurely, although the
> > documentation states it should.
>
> That is a
> curious behaviour, though I'm guessing there's no handler for SIGTERM
> (sent from a CTRL-C) and that's what's causing it to exit with a success
> value (I would guess that it is sending an exit code of some sort, just
> not one that indicates failure).
If it was only a SIGTERM handler issue it wouldn't be too much of a problem,
because I could instead terminate the shell script from which I started it,
along with all child processes.
The main problem is that I also get no exit code (or to be more precise, exit
code 0 as it seems) if the render aborts due to a parse error or similar.
In the mean time, however, I found out that this is actually a MegaPOV-only
problem; POV 3.6.1c seems to return a proper exit code.
Strange enough, because from what I see in the code there is no difference
whatsoever regarding the way PoV-ray and MegaPOV terminate.
Maybe it has something to do with the MegaPOV binary being an AMD64 binary; I
could imagine that this may happen to be troublesome with the main() function
being declared as int, and the exit code normally being set by a "return
<whatever>;" statement instead of calling exit().
The POV-ray binary, as far as I can see, is a normal x386 32-bit binary. Aside
from that, chances are it was compiled with a different compiler.
Hm, maybe I need to compile my own version of MegaPOV after all... don't like...
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