vdr-1.3.33, .update detection broken if recording dir != /video

[Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de (Klaus Schmidinger)]

Jon Burgess wrote:
> I just found that the .update detection is broken for me with 
> vdr-1.3.33. I performed and strace on vdr and it is not using the 
> correct recording location:
> 
> stat("/video/.update", 0x7fffffc1e0d0)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
> directory)
> 
> I place my recordings in /video0 using "-v /video0". It looks like the 
> problem is the change which adds the assignment of updateFileName into 
> the constructor of cRecordings:
> 
>   cRecordings Recordings;
> 
>   cRecordings::cRecordings(bool Deleted)
>   :cThread("video directory scanner")
>   {
>     updateFileName = strdup(AddDirectory(VideoDirectory, ".update"));
> 
> It looks like the Recordings object is instantiated before the 
> VideoDirectory has been parsed from the commandline, hence 
> updateFileName always points to the default VIDEODIR.

The attached patch should fix this.

Klaus
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--- recording.h	2005/09/25 14:30:13	1.44
+++ recording.h	2005/10/01 10:24:41
@@ -93,10 +93,11 @@
 
 class cRecordings : public cList<cRecording>, public cThread {
 private:
-  char *updateFileName;
+  static char *updateFileName;
   bool deleted;
   time_t lastUpdate;
   int state;
+  const char *UpdateFileName(void);
   void Refresh(bool Foreground = false);
   void ScanVideoDir(const char *DirName, bool Foreground = false);
 protected:
--- recording.c	2005/09/25 14:29:49	1.119
+++ recording.c	2005/10/01 10:29:02
@@ -743,10 +743,11 @@
 
 cRecordings Recordings;
 
+char *cRecordings::updateFileName = NULL;
+
 cRecordings::cRecordings(bool Deleted)
 :cThread("video directory scanner")
 {
-  updateFileName = strdup(AddDirectory(VideoDirectory, ".update"));
   deleted = Deleted;
   lastUpdate = 0;
   state = 0;
@@ -755,7 +756,6 @@
 cRecordings::~cRecordings()
 {
   Cancel(3);
-  free(updateFileName);
 }
 
 void cRecordings::Action(void)
@@ -763,6 +763,13 @@
   Refresh();
 }
 
+const char *cRecordings::UpdateFileName(void)
+{
+  if (!updateFileName)
+     updateFileName = strdup(AddDirectory(VideoDirectory, ".update"));
+  return updateFileName;
+}
+
 void cRecordings::Refresh(bool Foreground)
 {
   lastUpdate = time(NULL); // doing this first to make sure we don't miss anything
@@ -825,13 +832,13 @@
 
 void cRecordings::TouchUpdate(void)
 {
-  TouchFile(updateFileName);
+  TouchFile(UpdateFileName());
   lastUpdate = time(NULL); // make sure we don't tigger ourselves
 }
 
 bool cRecordings::NeedsUpdate(void)
 {
-  return lastUpdate < LastModifiedTime(updateFileName);
+  return lastUpdate < LastModifiedTime(UpdateFileName());
 }
 
 bool cRecordings::Update(bool Wait)