[Ffmpeg-devel] Network patch for MingW users

[Måns Rullgård]

Michel Bardiaux said:
> Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>>>
>>>> +#ifdef __MINGW32__
>>>> +    init_winsock();
>>>> +#endif
>>> Aaaaiiiieeee!  NO MORE OF THIS. PLEASE.
>>
>> Also that's totally definitely non threadsafe.
>
> Why? AFAIK WSAStartup is threadsafe. See e.g.
> http://www.tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/

Of more interest is what happens if WSAStartup() is called more than once.
Likewise for WSACleanup()

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