[Ffmpeg-devel] swscaler integration

[Erik Slagter]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:34 -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > I never understood why no unix version has a ioctl to set the pipe
> > buffer size.
> 
> I guess then the kernel implementation would be a lot more complex
> (not just using a single page) and there would have to be a mechanism
> to prevent unbounded memory usage by pipe buffers. As it stands, a
> sane open file limit provides a decent (altho somewhat large) pipe
> buffer limit. But maybe this is already handled some other way
> anyway..?

Yep. Sockets/socketpairs do exactly this. You can set the buffer size
using setsockopt(). So to me it seems there is no real reason not to
implement it.

Now I am thinking of it, it would be +/- five minutes work to take the
source of your favourite shell, modify the pipe() call to socketpair(),
add a setsockopt() call and you're done. Weird.
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