[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-actuator-0.0.5 plugin

[Christian Gmeiner <christian@visual-page.de>]

Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>
> > I was just about to add your plugin to the "Plugins" page on the VDR 
> > homepage.
> > However, looking through your README file I found this:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - If you (like me) are using the dxr3 plugin, you'll find that it doesn't
> > exit cleanly: soon after vdr calls cDevice::Shutdown() the dxr3 plugin 
> > will
> > crash vdr, preventing the actuator plugin to save the current dish 
> > position
> > on disk. As a workaround I reverted the order of the shutdown (around the
> > end of vdr.c) from
> >
> >   cDevice::Shutdown();
> >   PluginManager.Shutdown(true);
> >
> > to
> >
> >   PluginManager.Shutdown(true);
> >   cDevice::Shutdown();
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > This is not a good idea, because if you shut down the plugin manager
> > _before_ shutting down the devices, a device that is implemented through
> > a plugin may crash because its dynamically loaded code is gone.
>
> Yes, I understand that, but it's just a workaround until the dxr3 plugin 
> is fixed , at least I think it's caused by the dxr3 plugin, because if I 
> don't load that plugin I don't see the problem, but I don't see tv 
> either ;-) .
Could you explain me the problem with the dxr3 plugin?


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Christian Gmeiner
Maintainer of the DXR3-Plugin for VDR: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxr3plugin/
Maintainer of VDR-Ebuilds at Gentoo.de