[mythtv] ThreadedFileWriter commit

[Torbjörn Jansson]

mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:27 -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
>> I have a question related to this commit:
>> 
>>> Changes committed by danielk on Tue May  3 18:58:58 2005
> 
>> What is Myth's behavior when an open-for-write file suddenly becomes
>> unwritable (perhaps due to a soft NFS mount failure)?  Right now, it
>> doesn't seem to keep trying, which would be helpful.  When I get the
>> chance, I'll come up with a patch to do this.
> 
> I believe the backend keeps trying while spewing lots of error
> messages to the console. Not sure though.
> 
> -- Daniel
> 

What woud happen to the file if the backend was unable to write some data
and then later succeeds in writing?
Maybe mpeg2 files can handle this, but what about nupplevideo type nuv
files? Woudn't that result in a corrupt file after the point where it failed
to write for a while?