[FFmpeg-devel] The "bad" Patch

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Hi,

Whatever glibc does or doesn't do is kinda irrelevant. FFmpeg is supposed to be portable and that makes `system()` a non-starter given how bad it *can* be.

With that said, and with my CC hat on, if you would consider a portably safer alternative, I can only say that considering what strong objections there were, and who made them, the only way forward (if any) is to solicit the TC.

(I am not necessarily against spawn/fork+exec but I am also *not* a TC member.)

Br,