[mythtv-commits] Ticket #5485: Store the directory a program was created in

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#5485: Store the directory a program was created in
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 Reporter:  Tony Lill <ajlill at ajlc.waterloo.on.ca>  |        Owner:  ijr    
     Type:  enhancement                             |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  minor                                   |    Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mythtv                                  |      Version:  unknown
 Severity:  medium                                  |   Resolution:         
  Mlocked:  0                                       |  
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Comment(by Tony Lill <ajlill at ajlc.waterloo.on.ca>):

 Because it's easier for external move scripts to update, since they don't
 have to grub around in the storage group stuff. Same goes for mythweb, if
 it ever wanted to use it.

 I don't think it will make the code simpler. At the points where I store
 and use the dirname, I'd have to add an extra lookup to go from id to path
 or path to id. In fact, in StartedRecording, all I did was turn a local
 variable into a class variable.  Unfortunately, the code that figures out
 where to put a new recording is in an inconvenient place for storing the
 id. That was the first place I looked to store the dirname.

 I was concerned about db size and bandwidth, but I would expect, in
 general, that the dirnames would be relatively short. For example, mine
 are less than the size of basename, so the bloat would be fairly small as
 a percentage. There are much bigger tables around, so the increase in db
 size should be negligable. As for bandwidth, I haven't noticed any
 degradation using my xbox frontend, which is usually very sensitive to to
 that. Not hard data, but if it was going to kill anything...

 As to security, If you can get into the database to change the dirname in
 the recorded table, you could also change the dirname in the storage
 group. Ditto for a man in the middle attack on the proto. Also, anything
 you could do with dirname, you could also do by adding ../ to the start of
 basename. I don't think there's anything in myth that strips that sort of
 stuff out.

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