[vdr] Re: vdradmin blocks LIRC thread

["Peter Evertz" <leo2@pec.homeip.net>]

On 3 Oct 2003 at 15:32, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Peter Evertz wrote:
> > ...
> > May be differend threads ?
> > I have reviewed the code, but I seems that spliting the SVDR and LIRC
> > handling in different threads is not so easy because they are merged in the
> > interface.c.
> > 
> > Any ideas ?
> 
> One thing I could think of would be to tag each EPG entry
> with a timestamp and allow the LSTE command to request
> only those EPG entries that have changed since a given time.
> This would dramatically reduce the amount of data actually
> transferred, and vdradmin could concentrate on things that are
> actually new.
> 
> However, this can oly be done after I have reworked the EPG stuff,
> since currently EPG entires are pretty much changed all the
> time because of the "EPG bugfixes". If the above suggestion would
> be beneficial for vdradmin (and maybe other tools) I'll keep
> it in mind for 1.3.x.
> 
> Klaus
The timestamp solution is a smarter solution, but i think more 
complicated than different threads.
"Normal" unix-servers like in.telnetd, sshd etc. spawn themselfes when 
getting a connection, this makes the programming of the server easy 
(you only have to care of "your" client and nobody else) and makes 
things independent (if a client messes up the server, only this server is 
blocked , and nothing else ).

Peter


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