[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add av_file_get_size() and av_file_read(), replace cmdutils.h:read_file().

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Wed Dec 15 04:44:56 CET 2010


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:52:31PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Tuesday 2010-12-14 23:18:52 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:48:52AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> [...]
> > > New try:
> > > int av_file_map(const char *filename, uint8_t **bufptr, size_t *size, int log_offset, void *log_ctx);
> > > void av_file_unmap(uint8_t *bufptr, size_t size);
> > > 
> > > this will simply achieve to create a writable buffer from the content
> > > of the file, buffer which will be completely decoupled from the file
> > > itself (that is: mmapped with MAP_PRIVATE), and which is closed before
> > > returning from av_file_map(), so there is no need to keep the filedes
> > > around anymore.
> > > 
> > > And if you don't like this design please *give more detailed
> > > indications* so we'll avoid to go around in circles and waste precious
> > > time and energy.
> > 
> > this is ok for private (ff_) API
> > for public API use of av_log() should be droped otherwise it is too
> > inconvenient to use in applications that dont use av_log() already.
> 
> what's the problem with:
> ret = av_file_map(filename, &buf, &size, log_offset, NULL);
> ?

bloated unneeded APItis

mmap and open use errno, a non libav based application that wants to replace
these 2 calls will not use a function that does funny callbacks to a funny
loging system that calls printf() by default
everyone will throw this in the trash bin where the other bloated intermingled
APIs are and they would be quite correct in doing so. 2 calls to open+mmap are
alot cleaner than this


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