Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... >> Of course my point is that VDR should never hang when >> reading a file that it has created itself. >> Would you like me to create a patch this weekend that >> fixes this? > > Very well. And don't forget to adjust summary2info.pl as well. I am sorry, I do not know perl. I went straight to Python in my evolution. ;-) Anyway, as promised, here is the patch that does not only prevent VDR from hanging/crashing (*), but also displays summaries that do not have a short text correctly. Carsten. (*) During my tests today, vdr crashed with these messages: Sep 4 13:34:08 vdr kernel: dvb-ttpci: warning: timeout waiting in BlitBitmap: 0, 1 Sep 4 13:34:10 vdr kernel: dvb-ttpci: __av7110_send_fw_cmd(): timeout waiting for COMMAND idle Sep 4 13:34:10 vdr kernel: dvb-ttpci: av7110_send_fw_cmd(): av7110_send_fw_cmd error -110 Sep 4 13:34:10 vdr kernel: dvb-ttpci: av7110_fw_cmd error -110 Sep 4 13:34:15 vdr kernel: dvb-ttpci: ARM crashed @ card 0 Sep 4 13:34:16 vdr kernel: dvb-ttpci: gpioirq unknown type=0 len=0 Sep 4 13:34:16 vdr kernel: dvb-ttpci: adac type set to 0 @ card 0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FixSummaryHang.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 938 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20050904/7679240e/FixSummaryHang.bin