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

[Philip Lawatsch <philip@lawatsch.at>]

Udo Richter wrote:

> Philip Lawatsch wrote:
>
> > This would require every single application using svdrp to be rewritten.
> > That breaks a lot imo :)
>
> Read again. The only thing that changes for old apps is that in the rare 
> case of a collision the LST* will fail with a new error code, where 
> previously the whole connect would have failed.
>
> > And, the problem is that a single command like list cannot be 
> > auto-locked. 
>
> Of course the lock must be kept for the rest of the remaining session.
But then you have the very same situation!
As long as the session of such a programm persists you cant have other 
connections doing usefull things.

Unless of course all these programs implement the new api.

> > Imho the best idea would be to turn away from numbers and use ids.
>
> And how would this be implemented without breaking compatibility? Sure 
> that programs dont expect lines to be numbered from 1 to n?
If they do then imo they're broken already and should be fixed :)

kind regards Philip