[FFmpeg-devel] libossupport status
François Revol
revol
Sat Dec 29 12:59:50 CET 2007
> > It doesn't do it publically, but does it internally in the code, so
> > does Linux.
>
> Unix is a standard, not an implementation, and therefore there is no
> such thing as "what it does internally in the code". The syscall
> calling convention is utterly irrelevant since it's completely
> abstracted away.
Unix is a brand, with several OSes claiming to *be* Unix, including
OSX.
> > And this way of returning errors is shamely reused in other things
> > like
> > OSS, up to apps. Even ffmpeg did that at some point (and still does
> > but
> > through a macro).
>
> It's hardly shameful.
It is.
Fran?ois.
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