[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] make demuxer_get_percent_pos() recheck file length

[Oded Shimon]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:56:05PM -0700, Scott W. Larson wrote:
> Alban Bedel wrote:
> 
> >The fd field could be anything (ie there not even a guarentee that
> >it acctually hold a fd), 
> > 
> >
> 
> I was trusting this comment in libmpdemux/stream.h.:
> 
>    typedef struct stream_st {
>    :
>       int fd;   // file descriptor, see man open(2)
>    :

A stream can be anything.. what about windows, if i'm not mistaken windows 
doesn't even have such a thing... playing with this fd is like playing with 
the internals of something you shouldn't be touching..

- ods15