Re: [PATCH] Stop lircd exiting

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Hi!

Bastien Nocera "ha...@ha..." wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 22:20 +0200, Christoph Bartelmus wrote:
> <snip>
>> Currently lircd will exit if the device is not available and the 1st
>> client connects.
>>
>> If a client already is connected and the device becomes unavailable, the
>> 2nd client will be able to connect without any problem.
>>
>> This is kind of inconsistent and I would propose to change the code that
>> the 1st client will be able connect regardless whether the device can be
>> opened or not.

> So we should make sure that lircd always keeps running, and never
> disconnects whether the backing device is available or not. Is that
> correct?
>
> Removing that whole chunk of code around the patch I proposed at the
> beginning of the thread should fix the problem. Is that what you would
> want? If so, I'll make a patch and test it tomorrow.

Yes, that's what I currently have in mind if somebody does not find any  
good arguments against it.

Christoph