[mythtv-users] What is impact of mythbackend restart on

[Chris Pinkham]

> If mythbackend is restarted while mythcommflag or mythtranscode are
> running, what is the impact? Does it have to start those processes
> again, does it cause irreparable damage or does it have no impact?

Since mythtranscode and mythcommflag are run using a system()
call inside mythbackend, if you restart mythbackend, then
mythcommflag and mythtranscode will die as you noticed.  These programs
are run via Myth's JobQueue.  When you startup mythbackend, the
JobQueue runs a RecoverQueue() method which looks for any unfinished jobs
that were running on the backend when it was stopped.  These jobs are
requeued and should be restarted when the JobQueue starts running
jobs again.

> Same for if mythfilldatabase is running?

Not 100% sure about this so I'll let others answer.

-- 
Chris