[vdr] Re: broken epg.data file ?

[s.huelswitt@gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt)]

On 06 Apr 2002 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:

> I'll change the code that writes this file so that it makes sure that
> the file is only accessible after it has been written entirely:

Well, but this way it takes double disk space for a moment. This
may be too much in a ramdisk based setup (like I have it).

Why not use a lock file? Or delete the old file, create the new
one with a different name and when finished rename it back?

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