[mythtv-users] Does mythfilldatabase need a lock?

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 22:21 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Suppose you want to run mythfilldatabase manually.  That sounds reasonable 
> to me.  But suppose that, at the same time, housekeeping decided that now is 
> also the time to run mythfilldatabase.  So you've got two of them going.
> 
> Are they going to step on each other toes?  I've looked at the code; I 
> haven't really studied it extensively, but I don't see anything that tells 
> me this is _not_ going to be a problem.  I considered, briefly, testing this 
> scenario to see if it really breaks, but I took the easy way out, and 
> quickly patched in a few lines that make mythfilldatabase acquire a lock 
> file.  That took less time that it would've taken to set up a full-fledged 
> test scenario, but I'm wondering if I should've wasted any time at all…

This is really a mythtv-dev question, but yeah it really should
acquire a lock. It's on my TODO list for the EIT fixes since it
is running pretty much all the time and conflicts with
mythfilldatabase.

-- Daniel