On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:42:58 -0500, Warp wrote:


>   The SIGPIPE signal is thrown when a process writes to a pipe but
> there's no process reading it (ie. there's no process which has that
> pipe open in read mode). This can only happen if the reader process
> closes the pipe (or is killed or whatever) because the pipe cannot
> be opened in write mode unless it's already opened in read mode by
> something else.

That's right. You have to create/open the pipe before launching pov. You 
can also receive a sigpipe if pipe buffers are full, i.e if the read
process don't read it.

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