[vdr] Re: multiple instances

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Ronnie Brunn wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I went into the recordings menu and wanted to delete a certain
> recording. VDR stated that the recording could not be deleted. I tried a
> few times and everytime there was the red error message and all my
> recordings were shown unharmed with the recording I wanted to delete
> still there.
> I tried to start playback to find out whats so strange about the file it
> could not be deleted and suddenly the screen went black and the channel
> got resynced. I went back into the menu and all but three of my
> recordings had vanished.
> 
> I investigated and found out that I managed to start a second instance
> of VDR which also listened to the same LIRCD and deleted one file after
> the other while I was only shown the printout of the other instance that
> controlled the primary DVB card (in fact the only one in the computer)
> 
> Vdr started without the slightest notification about it being called
> twice with identical video-directory, primary card and both instances
> listening to the same Lircd.
> 
> I believe in 99% of all cases the user does not want VDR to be
> instantiated more than one time on the same machine. He definetly does
> not want to have two instances listening to the same LIRCD.
> 
> I think VDR should be atomic by default - means it should quit with an
> error message if the user tries to call it a second time.
> (Perhaps if some people do want it running more than one time - on
> another DVB-card as primary with another config-directory - that should
> still be possible with a special command line option.)
> 
> But most important - vdr should never attach a second time to the same
> LIRCD, in fact vdr should not react to remote commands if it has no
> primary device it can give feedback to.

Can you provide some code that implements this behaviour?

Klaus
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