diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 4743d057..fd0ad595 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1117,6 +1117,7 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  for fixing a possible crash in remux.c on 64-bit machines
  for making cCommand::Execute() use cPipe instead of popen() to avoid problems
  with open file handles when starting background commands
+ for fixing handling error status in cDvbTuner::GetFrontendStatus()
 
 Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
  for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 7d71a1c7..d2c4b401 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5036,8 +5036,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   with open file handles when starting background commands (thanks to Reinhard
   Nissl).
 
-2007-02-17: Version 1.4.5-2
+2007-02-24: Version 1.4.5-2
 
 - Removed 'assert(0)' from cDvbSpuDecoder::setTime() (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).
 - Fixed a possible crash when loading an invalid XPM file (thanks to Martin Wache).
 - Updated satellite names in 'sources.conf' (thanks to Thilo Wunderlich).
+- Fixed handling error status in cDvbTuner::GetFrontendStatus() (thanks to
+  Reinhard Nissl).
diff --git a/dvbdevice.c b/dvbdevice.c
index fb8ec938..955483ea 100644
--- a/dvbdevice.c
+++ b/dvbdevice.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: dvbdevice.c 1.160 2006/08/14 09:38:32 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbdevice.c 1.160.1.1 2007/02/24 11:10:14 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "dvbdevice.h"
@@ -157,15 +157,14 @@ bool cDvbTuner::GetFrontendStatus(fe_status_t &Status, int TimeoutMs)
               ; // just to clear the event queue - we'll read the actual status below
         }
      }
-  do {
-     int stat = ioctl(fd_frontend, FE_READ_STATUS, &Status);
-     if (stat == 0)
-        return true;
-     if (stat < 0) {
-        if (errno == EINTR)
+  while (1) {
+        int stat = ioctl(fd_frontend, FE_READ_STATUS, &Status);
+        if (stat == 0)
+           return true;
+        if (stat < 0 && errno == EINTR)
            continue;
+        break;
         }
-     } while (0);
   return false;
 }