[mythtv] making mythbackend be a daemon

Andrew Heybey mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sun Jan 5 18:25:12 EST 2003


On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:37:50PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:10:59PM -0500, Andrew Heybey wrote:
> 
> > 1. Apply the attached "mythbackend.diff" patch (just a couple of
> >    changes).  This patch makes mythbackend work even if there is no
> >    DISPLAY since it no longer creates a widget.  I haven't yet tried
> >    to use daemon(3) but that would be the obvious next step.
> 
> mythbackend will eventually work this way out of the box; it's just a bit
> more convenient to debug as-is.

I assumed so, but I wanted it *now* :-).  It can still be run as usual
for debugging.

andrew



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