[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf/dashenc: Fix file URI handling when deleting files.

[Andrey Semashev]

On 11/28/18 7:47 PM, Jeyapal, Karthick wrote:
> 
> On 11/28/18 4:46 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> The URI used to open the output streams may be an actual URI with "file" scheme,
>> according to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8089. This commit makes file
>> deletion routine recognize file URIs and extract the actual filesystem path
>> from it.
> There is already some code in ffmpeg to handle this. It is present in file_delete() function in file.c.
> We will need to avoid code duplication for the same functionality. One option could be to call avpriv_io_delete() function instead of calling unlink, so that file_delete function gets called.
> Calling avpriv_io_delete will also make the delete functionality easily extendable for other output protocols.

That would be fine with me, but I'm using Linux. Looking at file_delete 
(in libavformat/file.c), it looks like it will only work on POSIX 
systems but not on Windows, since it doesn't have unistd.h. Am I 
correct? And if so, is avpriv_io_delete still the preferred approach?