[MPlayer-dev-eng] support https: URLs

[Nico Sabbi]

Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2007 14:42 Nico Sabbi wrote:
> 
>>Mplayer _CAN_NOT_ fork
> 
> 
> I'm just curious, but *why*?
> fork() is POSIX-compilant function, and moreover it is already used 
> in mplayer, e.g. in cache2 code.
> 

because it's ugly, creates a mess, prevents certain things from 
working (e.g. certain features of dvd://, dvdnav:// and maybe more are 
not available)
and as you have seen it's not completely portable among the 
architectures we support (cache2 uses a different method for win32 
platforms).
It also uses much more memory than available and works behind the back 
of mplayer (never a good thing, I wonder if it's even easily exploitable).
Since https:// can be implememted with library calls there's not
a single reason to fork the main process.


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