[vdr] Re: How to kill an svdrp connection from vdr ?

[Philip Lawatsch <philip@lawatsch.at>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> > > From my point of view the uniqueness of the SVDRP is a complete
> > nonsense... And I really hope this will change :-)
>
> Allowing more than one concurrent SVDRP connection would require
> extensive locking mechanisms to avoid problems when accessing timers
> etc. That's why there is (currently) only one SVDRP connection possible.
Thats simply not true.

I had a look at the svdrp code and actually thought about implementing 
this myself for quite a while now.


All you basically have to do is the following:

You have one thread doing all the svdrp work.

This thread would simply have to monitor all connections using select 
and once a whole commmand came in from one connection execute the 
command. This way there is only sequential execution of svdrp commands.

Its that simple, _as long as_ svdrp remains stateless between commands. 
If ever you have a situation where 2 commands depend on each other 
you've got a problem.

kind regards Philip