[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffmpeg: check return value of avio_closep for progress report

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Tue Jan 5 18:08:59 CET 2016


On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:39:42PM -0800, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote:
> avio_closep is not guaranteed to succeed, and its return value can
> contain information regarding failure of preceding writes and silent
> loss of data (man 2 close, man fclose). Users should know when the
> progress was not successfully logged, and so a diagnostic is printed
> here.
> 
> The reason only one of these is changed in the patch is to get feedback:
> a quick glance shows a large number of unchecked avio_close operations.
> It may be tedious to check all of them, and relative importance varies
> across instances. This was one which I feel is important.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde at gmail.com>
> ---
>  ffmpeg.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

patch LGTM

thx

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