[mythtv-users] I hate when this happens

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:10 pm, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > At this point, I'm completely annoyed by the lack of your
> > imagination that you can not extrapolate the real problem
> > from simple description of the problem, which is that, the
> > restarting of mythbackend kills ongoing recording without
> > any user intervention.
> 
> I think you missed the "tongue in cheek" portion of his message.
> 
> Anyway, I'd also like to see this problem resolved, especially if it
> would help to have recording spawned to a second thread (which would be
> separated enough form the main backend thread so that restarting the
> main backend thread wouldn't kill the recording thread).  It would help
> on multiproc/hyperthreaded machines, and also allow ps to show
> immediately if a recording is happening.

Unless I'm mistaken, threads don't work that way... if you kill the main 
process, it kills *all* the threads.  The way to do what you want would be to 
spawn off an instance of a recording application, which would be problematic 
and of limited benefit, IMHO.

-JAC