[vdr] Re: runvdr in C vs. bash script

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

I demand that Nicolas Huillard may or may not have written...

> @Darren Salt : what is the point of having the runvdr in C instead of bash?

Mainly because I could ;-)

> (apart from not depending on some sort of scripting language, for memory
> footprint reasons, but I don't think this is avoidable with VDR.)

It does seem to be largely avoidable, though there are a few external uses of
shell scripts (/etc/vdr/*hooks/*).

> Did you implement things that are not part of the main runvdr script?

The only significant thing is that it (as found in my 1.3.14 package) allows
better handling of vdr crashes (it can log the exit signal, although this
probably shouldn't be at priority 'info'). It also has an option to switch
off NPTL in case there should still be any problems, perhaps with some
plugin.

When it was written, the plugin parameter handling in the script version (in
the official Debian package) was broken.

> My problem is that C is much more difficult to analyse/modify than a bash
> (in that case, I simply switch to the standard version, but I would like to
> know what I'm about to miss...)

There's possibly some breakage in the patchlevel checking, but I've not
noticed any problems...

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