Version 1.4.1-1

- Added "-fPIC" to the compiler options in Make.config.template when compiling
  plugins (thanks to Udo Richter). If you use your own Make.config file, you may
  want to add these lines there, too.
- Added some comment to cDevice::GetDevice() to explain how the individual
  conditions are put together to make a decision on which device to use.
- Updated 'S13E' in 'sources.conf' (thanks to Antti Hartikainen).
- Now making sure VPS timers don't get stuck with outdated events, and that the
  actual device isn't used for updating a VPS timer's event as long as other
  free devices are available.
- Modified rcu.c to better handle RC5 codes.
- Added a missing variable initialization in cRingBufferLinear::cRingBufferLinear()
  (thanks to Prakash Punnoor).
- Fixed handling relative link targets in the ReadLink() function (reported by
  Patrick Cernko).
- Now making sure a VPS timer has a schedule in case the epg.data file didn't
  contain one when VDR was started.

tools.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.c 1.118 2006/05/26 10:10:31 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.c 1.119 2006/06/17 09:45:32 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "tools.h"
@@ -480,22 +480,16 @@ int DirSizeMB(const char *DirName)
 
 char *ReadLink(const char *FileName)
 {
-  char RealName[PATH_MAX];
-  const char *TargetName = NULL;
-  int n = readlink(FileName, RealName, sizeof(RealName) - 1);
-  if (n < 0) {
-     if (errno == ENOENT || errno == EINVAL) // file doesn't exist or is not a symlink
-        TargetName = FileName;
+  if (!FileName)
+     return NULL;
+  char *TargetName = canonicalize_file_name(FileName);
+  if (!TargetName) {
+     if (errno == ENOENT) // file doesn't exist
+        TargetName = strdup(FileName);
      else // some other error occurred
         LOG_ERROR_STR(FileName);
      }
-  else if (n < int(sizeof(RealName))) { // got it!
-     RealName[n] = 0;
-     TargetName = RealName;
-     }
-  else
-     esyslog("ERROR: symlink's target name too long: %s", FileName);
-  return TargetName ? strdup(TargetName) : NULL;
+  return TargetName;
 }
 
 bool SpinUpDisk(const char *FileName)