[vdr] Exit status (was: Re: Re: VDR version 1.2.3 pre-release)

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

Am Sonntag, 17. August 2003 16:17 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 17. August 2003 15:00 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:

> > > If nobody finds any serious problems with this new version I'd like
> > > to officially release it by wednesday.
> >
> > Hi Klaus. I have tried to find some information on the exit codes of vdr.
> > Does the exit codes differ if the reasons for terminating of vdr are
> > different ?
>
> man vdr -> "EXIT STATUS"

stupid me :o/. Thanks

> > What I think of is, if vdr quits because f.i. a plugin could not be
> > loaded. Since runvdr checks if exitcode != 0 => restart, it would be good
> > to catch non recoverable errors like misconfiguration with a different
> > exitcode, otherwise we would get a infinite loop ... difficult to catch,
> > beside using error handling in runvdr. Would something like this be
> > possible ? Or is it implemented and I'm to stupid to see it ?
>
> Yes, actually runvdr should rather check for '1' and only stay in the loop
> for that value.

Yep, agree. 

> Could you please try
>
>    if test $? -ne 1; then exit; fi
>
> instead of
>
>    if test $? -eq 0; then exit; fi

Yep works perfect. Thanks for the pointer. I will read better the next time. 
This should be changed in runvdr. 

Greets

Steffen 




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