[FFmpeg-cvslog] r12241 - trunk/libavformat/mov.c

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:52:54PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:33:08PM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>>> Now Im curious, considering mov layout and libavformat mechanisms, what
>>> would you expect to leak or read, besides what the user application is
>>> allowed to read anyway (url_fopen suceeds), and what would be different
>>> than garbage from a genuine self-contained file.
>> Do you really not get the point?
> 
> Or alternatively, am I the only one who sees any of these points as really
> _critical_? I am sorry if I annoy you because I am completely at odds
> with your opinions, but to me this kind of behaviour feels just as bad
> as any buffer overflow, and I can't help that it is considered a feature
> just drives me crazy.

The problem is that you don't see any use of this feature, and fail to
understand why it is useful, but you should first read specs of 'alis'
and Alias Record functionnality.

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