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

["Reiner Buehl" <reiner@buehl.net>]

> > Oh, you misunderstood me.  I _want_ emergency exits for 
> _fatal_ errors
> > like not finding a channels.conf or or not finding any 
> input devices or
> > some such.  But a bad timers entry is not a fatal error.
> 
> Well, then what about just dropping offending lines in channels.conf
> and timers.conf? With log messages, of course...

I would definitly prefere it if VDR would behave like you 
suggest here. I do agree with most people here that suggested
to be more cautious with fatal exits. In case of offending
channels.conf and timer.conf lines a log message and ignoring
or commenting of the line is sufficient. In terms of no signal
conditions I would also prefere a more to the point log message
and not a endless restart circle. Maybe a differentiation
between fatal and restart required exits would make sense.
If these two would have different exit codes, runvdr could stop 
in case of a fatal error and log files would not fill up with
endless restarts and in case of a restart required exit runvdr
could reload the drivers or whatever and do the restart.

Best regards,
Reiner.