[vlc-devel] Why is VLM using stream_UrlNew?

[Vytautas Stankevičius]

On 2008 m. May 12 d., Monday 20:33:22 Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > 	Hello,
> >
> > VLM is currently using VLC stream_* to read the configuration file. I,
> > hmm, wonder if there is really a use case for reading a VLM script
> > anywhere but from the filesystem.
> >
> > This is normally not a security problem per se. Users can simply not
> > run "vlc --vlm-conf http://www.haxors.com/". Still, it does not seem like
> > a terrible idea to me.
> >
> > I would propose replacing stream_* with regular <stdio.h> FILE functions,
> > unless someone has a real use case for this (mis?)feature.
> >
> > Regards,
>
> no objection here.

What about SMB ?

Regards