On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 01:10:20PM +0200, wm4 wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:43:12 +0200 > Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > > Le tridi 3 brumaire, an CCXXIII, Timothy Gu a écrit : > > > Those URLs are very explicit, while `/dev/` can mean anything, > > > including `/dev/stdin`. > > > > Andrey quoted these bits of code to show that checking filename for NULL is > > not necessary. I believe his proof is conclusive for that point. > > > > wm4 : > > > IMHO it should check whether it's really a video device. > > > > Yes, it should. Do you intend to propose the patch that invokes stat() on > > all supported operating systems, check that can not devolve into a security > > issue in the context of probing, find the relevant list of major/minor > > pairs and a way of testing the dynamically allocated ones soon, or are you > > just bikeshedding. > > Don't present your extremely bad ideas as mine. Thanks.
Could you both please either bury or hide your hatchet? It is really annoying to all other when you write such obviously aggressive and non-constructive emails. wm4, if you have a simple way of doing this check, please explain it. Otherwise I think EXTENSION score is good enough to signal "well, we guess that's what it is". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
