[vdr] Re: VDR 1.2.1 doesn't shutdown while recording

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

Wolfgang Miller-Reichling wrote:
> 
> Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Tobias Faust (TF) wrote:
> >
> > TF> > 1. Recording is in progress
> > TF>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > TF> vdr doesnt shutdown if a timer is active. Its a feature !!! So its
> > TF> impossible to have abrupted records
> >
> > well.  actually, VDR _does_ call the shutdown script (with a start time of
> > the  currently  running recording, which is in the past to indicate that a
> > recurding  is  currently running). But your shutdown script decides not to
> > shutdown. Modify your shutdown script if you want it in a different way.
> 
> You're right, everything behaves like the documentation says. But I'd
> still consider this a bug in vdr, because it does not pass any
> information about the next timer (in the future) to the shutdown script.
> Therefore the script can do nothing but refuse to shutdown. Considering
> that the user actually has to confirm that he does want to shutdown
> despite ongoing recordings, I'd prefer sending the time of the next
> timer to the script.

And what if the next timer is only, say, 30 seconds in the future?
Should it then deliver the next but one timer? Where's the limit?

Klaus
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