[mythtv-users] Close to functional, few problems

[Renchi Raju]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Nelson Butterworth wrote:

> Renchi Raju wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Alan Snyder wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>>Also kind of weird, I get two instances of
> >>>
> >>>
> >>mythfrontend
> >>
> >>
> >>>running when i start up. One gets auto-started by
> >>>
> >>>
> >>kde when
> >>
> >>
> >>>the mythtv user logs in automatically. I can't
> >>>
> >>>
> >>figure out
> >>
> >>
> >>>where the other one is being run from.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Are you quitting kde with myth running?  By default,
> >>kde
> >>restores applications that were running when you last
> >>exited.  I can't recall where to turn off the option,
> >>but it should be somewhere in the kde control panel
> >>(K menu/Configuration/...)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >how do you know two instances are running. it might just be a thread of
> >mythfrontend
> >
> >renchi
> >
> >
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>  From what I've been able to tell, the frontend is not multi-threaded in
> this way. When you see 2 mythfrontend processes in the ps ax list, there
> are 2 instances of mythfrontend running.
>

a quick grep on mythfrontend shows that it uses pthreads in the
playbackbox file. iirc i have seen threads spawned by mythfrontend.

renchi