[vdr] Re: Error handling vs. user friendliness.

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that Josef Wolf may or may not have written...

> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:47:30PM +0100, Reiner Buehl wrote:
>>>         0      Successful program execution.
>>>         1      An error has been detected which requires the
>>>                DVB driver and vdr to be reloaded.
>>>         2      An non-recoverable error has been detected,
>>>                vdr has given up.
>> Great, so this is already in place. Then only the occurences of fatal
>> exits need to be checked and evaluated if they should be really fatal or
>> if vdr could still run.

> This will still not avoid the endless reload cycles.  It might be OK to
> make one or two tries to reload drivers.  But when two reloads don't help,
> two hundered reloads won't help either.

True. My version of runvdr handles this.

[snip]
>> If no channels can be read I would consider it fatal.

> I disagree.  The user might want to watch a recording.  The user should be
> able to check which timers are set.  [...]

<AOL>, and for much the same reasons.

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