> Stefan suggested implementing a new transition, TR_STARTABORT, issued if TR_START fails. mlogger can use it to cleanup open files, etc, similar to TR_STOP.
> 
> This is now implemented. In mlogger, TR_STARTABORT is similar to TR_STOP, but deletes open output files and does not save end-of-run information into databases, etc. mfe.c does not handle this trnasition yet, but I 
> plan to add it - to fix the observed situations where the run failed to start, but some equipment does not know about it and continues to generate events and send data.
> 
> svn rev 4514
> K.O.

There is one problem with the TR_STARTABORT: If you combine old and new clients they will crash, since the old clients don't know anything about TR_STARTABORT. The way to prevent this is to increase the Midas version from 
2.0.0 to 2.1.0. Then you will get a warning if you mix clients. Please test this and commit the change if it works.