[vdr] Re: Error handling vs. user friendliness.

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

Helmut Auer wrote:
> Hell Klaus
>
> > > I started a recording, forgot about it, and started to throw away
> > > channels.conf entries I am not interested in.
> >
> >
> > I doubt that, because VDR won't let you delete a channel which has
> > a timer programmed on it - or did you find a way to actually do this?
> I think he deleted the channels the easy way - by editing channels.conf, 
> not via vdr :-)
Oh, so he edited channels.conf while VDR was running?!
That's naughty...

> > Well, then what about just dropping offending lines in channels.conf
> > and timers.conf? With log messages, of course...
> I'd prefer something like showing a message:
>
> Errors in channels.conf - press ok to autorepair
>
> and if ok is not pressed within x seconds vdr will shutdown.
At the time channels.conf is read there is no OSD yet.

So it's either the current behaviour or dropping offending
entries and starting anyway.

Klaus