[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Fix some seek failure

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2006/3/17, Alban Bedel <albeu at free.fr>:
> I didn't ignored the discussion, otherwise i wouldn't even bother
> posting that. I did check the code before posting my first reply,
> and came to the conclusion that the patch was indeed the best solution,
> so i applied it. Sure i could have given a longer list of reason why i
> came to this conclusion, or why this bug have more chance to be seen
> with ftp. But i'm not here to explain you how unix socket and the stream
> API work.

Please do.

The way i see it, streaming system works with blocks. it reads whole
blocks at block boundary. Your new code could cause buffer to don't be
block aligned.