Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Peterson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need send scene description to the povray (v. 3.6) via stdin. I read man
> > pages and there is "+I-", I use this but I get only error, not rendering.
> >
>
> The man pages are outdated in this point (and have been for a long time).
>
> Scene files are required to be searchable to be parsed.  Therefore you
> can neither use named nor unnamed pipes for them.

Is there any hope that this restriction will be removed in the not
too distant future? We're planning to put together a pipeline for
generating 3D images using a cgi script, and if possible, I would like
to avoid the messy issue of generating temporary files and cleaning them
up in a way that works robustly in a multiprocess environment (i.e. if
more than one cgi processes execute concurrently).

Is there any explanation on why the file has to be searchable? Normally,
one is much better off using only one's own data structures once having
acquired them by parsing...

Best regards, Jan

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