Suggested Enhancement: allow nested "mythshutdown --lock" calls

[anonymous]

I find it useful to "nest" calls to "mythshutdown --lock", i.e. if "mythshutdown --lock" is executed n times than it takes n calls to "mythshutdown --unlock" to fully unlock rather than just one call. This makes it possible to run multiple long running tasks on a myth box and for the box to shutdown when the tasks are complete, using this simple script:

myth_master / # cat /media/bin/myth_task #!/bin/sh

trap "/usr/local/bin/mythshutdown --unlock" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGQUIT SIGABRT SIGKILL SIGALRM SIGSEGV SIGTERM

/usr/local/bin/mythshutdown --lock "$@" /usr/local/bin/mythshutdown --unlock trap - SIGHUP SIGINT SIGQUIT SIGABRT SIGKILL SIGALRM SIGSEGV SIGTERM myth_master / #

I've attached a diff for this enhancement - I hope that it gets included :-)

[rd.mora@…]

Patch to allow nested calls to "mythshutdown --lock"

[paulh]

This patch fails to apply with a malformed patch error. Even the usual trick of converting the line ends to unix style didn't work.

[paulh]

(In [14344]) Allow for nested calls to 'mythshutdown --lock'. See the ticket for a suggested use.

Closes #3420.