[MPlayer-dev-eng] Added new protocol smb://

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Sorry if I miss something but I would like to ask: why?
> In general, UNIX is about modularity. Thus since Linux already supports
> mounting SMB shares why do you need this? It's like you include full NFS
> client in user space just because you don't like mounting NFS exported
> directory first, than use that. It would turn into VERY complex and large
> code to include several (networked) filesystem direct support into mplayer
> while the certain fs is already supported by Linux (kernel).

I have to disagree.
Since you can mount FTP shares (ftpfs), why do you need an FTP client? :)
Or why do you use wget to get a file from a given url, instead of mounting,
cp, umount it?

> Also, if mounting is not good for you, there is a library (however I forgot
> its name) which can be forced to use with LD PRELOAD and it will handle
> some libc file functions on its own to allow to use //machine/share ... etc
> like "paths" as you expect like native "unix paths" without a single line
> changed in the source of the application.
hmm. it sounds really more unix-friendly :)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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