[Ffmpeg-devel] HTTP probing issue... [PATCH]

[Ronald S. Bultje]

hi,

On Feb 28, 2007, Francois Revol wrote:
> As an historical note, IIRC they appeared as an attempt to fix
> dangerous error practice (returning -EFOO which breaks in BeOS because
> posix errors are already negative) but never got used everywhere
> anyway.
[..]
> So to everyone submitting patches please always
>     return AVERROR(some posix error or errno itself);

Thanks for explaining, this sounds exactly like what I was praying  
for. Good work!

Bye,
Ronald