On 09.03.2013 21:24, Peter Münster wrote:

Hi Klaus,

Could you please delete line 577 from vdr.c or do something similar to let vdr continue even with read-only video directory?

vdr runs fine with this patch on my system, and it's important for me, that vdr cannot write anything to the video directory. (see also http://pmrb.free.fr/vdr/)

Here a small patch:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- --- vdr.c.orig 2013-03-09 21:13:57.846826771 +0100 +++ vdr.c 2013-03-09 21:16:33.503521762 +0100 @@ -574,7 +574,6 @@

if (!DirectoryOk(VideoDirectory, true)) {
   fprintf(stderr, "vdr: can't access video directory %s\n", VideoDirectory);

• return 2;
   }
  
  

  // Daemon mode:

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If you prefer, I can write a better patch: stop if not readable, warn if not writable.

I'm afraid we're too close to releasing version 2.0.0 to make such changes now.

Besides, why don't you just use a writeable video directory and mount your read-only directory below that? Something like

/video /video/readonly

Klaus