On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Brendon Higgins wrote:

> I've encountered a problem with the femon plugin opening
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 and not closing it. While tracking down a 
> different
> issue I wrote a small script that would periodically (every 30 seconds, say)
> use svdrp and the femon plugin to grab some information about the current
> status of my DVB signal. After some hours of this running I discovered VDR
> would have some weird problems, and I've since narrowed it down to the fact
> that for whatever reason each loop of my script causes a new opening of
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0, which is never closed (even though I do send the
> femon quit command). I can keep track of how many open file handles there are
> using "lsof | grep frontend0 | wc", which goes from one open instance at
> startup to several hundred after hours of running.

Hi, I just tried to reproduce this on my system and if you're using 
"OPEN" and "QUIT" command pairs the opened frontend just won't get 
closed. I'll take a deeper look at it later...

BR,
--
rofa

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