[vdr] Re: svdrp - Bug or Feature or my fault

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

Wolfgang Goeller wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I've a problem that I first discovered with 2.2 - might be it was introduced
> earlier but definitely it is not in 1.1.29
> 
> The symptoms - reproducable
> 
> I connect via telnet with the following script:
> 
> a=`echo "NEWT 1:$nummer:$tag:$Start:$Ende:50:90:$titel:"`
> (sleep 1 ; echo $a ; sleep 1) | telnet anti 2001
> 
> This works find with 1.1.29 - the logfile shows an error-message like
> 
> timer 203 added
> lost connection to SVDRP client
> ERROR (svdrp.c,354): Broken pipe
> 
> In 1.2.[2-4] after this telnet call no further telnet-calls
> are possible. That is: I can't add any further timer.
> Worse: vdr seems to bee half-alive: It continues to record
> those recordings that are just active - but it never stops
> them and it does not start any new recording.
> 
> If i got to the computer with the cards and want to use
> the OSD the picture is very slow. The menu-screen does not
> appear and I can't switch between channels.
> 
> A "killall vdr" does not help - I must use "killall -9 vdr"
> 
> The only difference I see is in line 1103 - in svdrp.c - should
> this be "reverted"?
> 
> Or should / must I change my shell-script?

Actually you should send a QUIT command at the end of your telnet session.
Otherwise VDR will keep the connection open until it times out (with the
latest patch I posted).

Klaus


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