POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : recovering from a power outage : Re: recovering from a power outage Server Time
23 Apr 2024 20:53:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: recovering from a power outage  
From: jhu
Date: 10 Jun 2017 19:15:01
Message: <web.593c7d17f571564d194284cc0@news.povray.org>
"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> If the power outage strikes at a time where POV-Ray is just updating the state
> file, there might be a possibility that the state file gets corrupted; I've
> never had a look how robust POV-Ray's abort-continue mechanism would be with
> respect to a truncated state file.

In all systems, it's possible to write a script that periodically saves the
state file periodically.


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