[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for Xv when shared memory allocation failed

[Alexander Strasser]

Hi,

joerg at britannica.bec.de wrote:
> attached fixes a problem with the initialisation of Xv. When the shmget
> failed, libX11 would abort due to invalid parameters. This can happen
> e.g. on NetBSD with the GENERIC kernel and PostgreSQL running in the
> background. Ideally the shmat would be checked too, but that would make
> the patch more messy.

  Patch looks correct so far but the same code is more or less duplicated
in vo xvmc with missing error check too. Unfotunately there is no easy
way to merge the two. I would say making the same change in vo_xvmc.c
is the way to go for now.

  Alex (beastd)