[vdr] Re: overwriting conf-files...

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Guido Fiala wrote:
> 
> Just a thought about all that configuration-files vdr and it's plugins write:
> 
> For unknown reasons i manage sometimes that at least setup.conf is recreated
> from scratch - appearantly something during overwriting the file goes wrong
> and vdr starts up with native values.
> 
> I suggest, that vdr does'nt simply delete the setup.conf but rename it to
> setup.conf~ and then rewrite it, similar to many text-editors do...
> 
> Strange - but so far i observed that problem only with setup.conf.

VDR uses cSafeFile (tools.c) to write config files, so it first
writes into a temporary file and then, after this has succeeded,
renames the temporary file to the original file name.

Klaus


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