[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lavu: add locale-independent sscanf implementation

Tomas Härdin tjoppen at acc.umu.se
Tue Nov 13 13:40:21 EET 2018


mån 2018-11-12 klockan 21:41 +0100 skrev Nicolas George:
> Tomas Härdin (2018-11-12):
> > Why not set locale instead?
> 
> That would conflict with the wishes of the application. A library
> should
> never change global state.
> 
> (Of course, the core of the problem is that locales are global state,
> this is braindead design.)

So fork() instead. This is a horrible solution

/Tomas


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