[mythtv] [PATCH] Changing channels in the background

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Wed Mar 2 05:40:04 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:13 pm, Chris Bagwell wrote:
> Gist of patch: Do a double fork() and immediately exit from first
> fork(). This will deamon-ize the external channel changer.  Had to do a
> third fork() to allow the timeout cleanup code to keep working.

Why not just add a & to the changer command line?

Isaac


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