[vdr] Unique Timer ID

[Matthias Schwarzott]

On Montag, 23. Februar 2009, Matthias Wächter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just wanted to ask whether someone already thought about the idea to use
> unique timer IDs, like autoincrement, for avoiding race conditions
> between multiple users or processes adding or removing timers. The
> associated renumbering between DELT operations can lead to hitting the
> wrong timer. If all timers had unique numbers, the issue would be gone
> implicitly, but timers.conf would have to carry the ID requiring a file
> layout change.
>

To me this sounds like a good idea.

Even better would be to then properly protect the VDR internal data 
structures, and finally just allow concurrent access to them. Like multiple 
svdrp connections etc.

Matthias