On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:33 , Riccardo Di Meo wrote: > a) exit if an "EXIT" file is found, even at the very start of the > execution. > I think this is the expected behaviour and I would strongly > encourage to > follow this course of action, if possible.
not sure which behavior should be expected, but this is a sensible solution. The removal of the EXIT file is hardly needed: the code removes it anyway before stopping, so the likelihood that a leftover EXIT file may cause an unexpected stop is quite small. About sending signal to the code: good in theory, a portability hell in practice. The EXIT file is not elegant but it always works (sort of) Paolo --- Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Physics, University of Udine via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
