On Montag, 23. Februar 2009, Matthias Wächter wrote: > Hi, > > just wanted to ask whether someone already thought about the idea to use > unique timer IDs, like autoincrement, for avoiding race conditions > between multiple users or processes adding or removing timers. The > associated renumbering between DELT operations can lead to hitting the > wrong timer. If all timers had unique numbers, the issue would be gone > implicitly, but timers.conf would have to carry the ID requiring a file > layout change. >
To me this sounds like a good idea. Even better would be to then properly protect the VDR internal data structures, and finally just allow concurrent access to them. Like multiple svdrp connections etc. Matthias _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
