[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Remove exit() in vhooks

[Víctor Paesa]

Hi,

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:17:09AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> i
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:07PM +0200, V??ctor Paesa wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The attached patch substitutes in vhooks the now forbidden exit() by
>> return.
>> >
>> > There is a legitimate usage of exit() in ppm.c (it ends life of a
>> spawned
>> > process) that I have substituted by _exit(), I don't know a more
>> elegant way
>> > of doing it.
>>
>> #undef exit ?
>
> For a forked child process, _exit() is the correct way to exit.
> Calling exit() in this case is very bad because it could corrupt any
> stdio files that were not flushed by the parent before forking.

Well, here is just in case a variant using the #undef exit

Regards,
V?ctor
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