[mythtv-commits] Ticket #3280: Add IsMasterBackend and BackendIsRunning functions to mythcontext

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#3280: Add IsMasterBackend and BackendIsRunning functions to mythcontext
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 Reporter:  anonymous  |        Owner:  stuartm 
     Type:  patch      |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  minor      |    Milestone:  0.21    
Component:  mythtv     |      Version:  head    
 Severity:  medium     |   Resolution:          
  Mlocked:  0          |  
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Comment(by Matthew Wire <devel at mrwire.co.uk>):

 1. Before your patch: IsMasterBackend would return true if the master ip
 matches the host ip.  So the backend does not actually have to be running
 for this to be the case.[[BR]]

 2. After your patch: IsMasterBackend will only return true if we are on
 the master backend and the backend is currently running.[[BR]]

 I think (1.) is the better behaviour here.  If you want behaviour like
 (2.) you can do (IsMasterBackend && BackendIsRunning).[[BR]]

 There may be situations where you want to know whether you are running on
 the master backend even when it is not running - for example, the backend
 should be stopped while running mythtv-setup but there may be settings you
 only want to display on the master backend etc.

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