[vdr] Re: feature request for 1.3

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:38:51AM +0200, Guy Roussin wrote:
> I want to restart vdr from a script without loosing
> current change of setup.conf (current channel for example)
> if i make a kill -9 vdr, i loose these current settings.

kill -9 will definitly kill vdr without running any signal handler.
In other words:  VDR is not able to catch SIGKILL and to run the
appropriate handler because the kernel send signal 9 aka SIGKILL
without raising a signal handler.  Try out kill -TERM.


      Werner


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