Hi >> Generally I like your idea :) >> But I would prefer to give the cPlugin Class a Busy member ( which returns >> false by default and could be changed by the plugin ) and vdr asks all >> plugins if they are busy and if any of these is busy the user must confirm >> the shutdown. > > Well, that was my first thought - and there already exists patches to do > exactly this. Then I heard, that that kind of extension was undesired in the > vdr. > > May be, because a buggy plugin could prevent the vdr from shutdown? > Using the mode of operation, a plugin could query and change the state, but > the vdr stays beeing the master and could overwrite the mode of operation at > any time. > > Hope I understood the things right. > VDR is always the master :-) There is no big difference between both "solutions". In both cases vdr will shutdown if the user confirms it. -- Helmut Auer, helmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
