Re: [vdr] small patch for vdr.c: continue even with read-only video directory

2013-03-10 Thread fnu
and it's important for me, that vdr cannot write anything to the video directory. Since this is important for you personaly, you want to change VDR for all users, are you serious? From my personal point of view a read only video directory with an video disk recorder doesn't make much sense. But

Re: [vdr] small patch for vdr.c: continue even with read-only video directory

2013-03-10 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 09.03.2013 21:24, Peter Münster wrote: Hi Klaus, Could you please delete line 577 from vdr.c or do something similar to let vdr continue even with read-only video directory? vdr runs fine with this patch on my system, and it's important for me, that vdr cannot write anything to the video

Re: [vdr] small patch for vdr.c: continue even with read-only video directory

2013-03-10 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Mar 10 2013, fnu wrote: Since this is important for you personaly, you want to change VDR for all users, are you serious? Yes, where is the problem? But to change it in a global way like this is IMHO not a way to go. Did you understand my suggestion? Here again: not writable:

Re: [vdr] small patch for vdr.c: continue even with read-only video directory

2013-03-10 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Mar 10 2013, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I'm afraid we're too close to releasing version 2.0.0 to make such changes now. No problem. I would just like to know, if you agree with such a patch (or something more elaborated). Besides, why don't you just use a writeable video directory and

Re: [vdr] small patch for vdr.c: continue even with read-only video directory

2013-03-10 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 10.03.2013 20:40, Peter Münster wrote: On Sun, Mar 10 2013, fnu wrote: But to change it in a global way like this is IMHO not a way to go. Did you understand my suggestion? Here again: not writable: warning, not readable: exit. Is that a problem for real-life systems? For most people

Re: [vdr] small patch for vdr.c: continue even with read-only video directory

2013-03-10 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Mar 10 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Read-only CAN for e.g. happen after an error when the filesystem is mounted with error=read-only Sorry, didn't know about such a configuration option. Therefore I agree with a somewhat more elaborated solution as mentioned by fnu. Or please

Re: [vdr] small patch for vdr.c: continue even with read-only video directory

2013-03-10 Thread VDR User
not writable: warning, not readable: exit. Is that a problem for real-life systems? A lot of people, myself included, don't like VDR exiting on its' own unless it's completely unavoidable (such as a crash). I'd much rather miss some recordings but have live tv available for everyone to use

[vdr] small patch for vdr.c: continue even with read-only video directory

2013-03-09 Thread Peter Münster
Hi Klaus, Could you please delete line 577 from vdr.c or do something similar to let vdr continue even with read-only video directory? vdr runs fine with this patch on my system, and it's important for me, that vdr cannot write anything to the video directory. (see also http://pmrb.free.fr/vdr/)