[vdr] Centralized 'thread active' handling

[Klaus Schmidinger]

Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2005 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Now, with the naming problem settled, are there any actual, technical
>>issues with this modification?
> 
> 
> *g*
> 
> If you could provide an updated patch, I'll go and test it.

I'll provide one tomorrow.
Have to think about the name some more.
With Continue() we get some funny things like

   if (!Continue())
      Start();

while

   if (!Active())
      Start();

would have made sense ;-)

Klaus