[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] add timeout to udp_read

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:15:55PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:09:51PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > I think it would also be a good idea to protect against the clock being
> > > reset by detecting av_gettime() < network_timeout_reference_time and
> > > adjusting network_timeout_reference_time.
> > 
> > why?
> > iam pretty sure ffmpeg will fail if the clock resets in 292
> > million years
> 
> I don't mean wrap-around, I mean if someone (e.g. NTP) happens to adjust
> the clock by e.g. a year, without an additional check our 10 ms timeout
> would just have become a 1-year and 10 ms timeout.

then we use the wrong clock


> It just seems reasonably simple enough to protect against this so I
> thought it can't hurt...

and if NTP slows the clock down like stoping it for a year ...

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