[vdr] Re: timer bug: Usage of channel ID inconsitend

[Alexander Wetzel <alexander.wetzel@web.de>]

On Saturday 06 September 2003 22:17, you wrote:
> Lauri Tischler wrote:
> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > This is not a VDR bug, but rather a bug in the scan tool.
> > > Usage of the NID and TID fields in channels.conf is currently
> > > not yet officially recommended. These fields shall, according to vdr.5,
> > > always be 0.
> >
> > Ummm...
> > If VDR does not use them, then VDR should totally ignore them,
> > value or no value.
>
> These fields are officially reserved for future use and, according to the
> man page, shall be 0. If somebody sets them to non-zero values, they
> should know what they are doing. You _can_ already make use of them, but
> in that case you have to _consistently_ set them in channels.conf _and_
> timers.conf.
>
> Klaus

No, sorry you can't do that. After you restart VDR all timers will be gone. 
That was the inconsitence:-)

In my eyes the manpage is missleading:
NID    The Network ID of this channel (for future use, currently always              
0).

Wouldn't it better to say: "for future use, must be 0"?

Of course the actual behaviour is fine for me and probably this problem is not 
worth the discussion. It'll go away as soon as the reserved fields are 
offical used.
Until then it's documented at the mailing list:-)

Alexander Wetzel



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