[vlc-devel] [PATCH] - vmem (more libvlc-friendly)

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Nov 28, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Laurent Aimar wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I fear this is too risky. Basically it means giving the ability to
>> write random content at the specified memory location
> Yes.
>
>> , just using an
>> MRL.
> No, it is not possible to use the MRL to do so.
>
> As the option are not (or may be changed to not be) whilelisted,  
> they can
> only be set on an explicit user request.

Sure. This is disabled by default, but this can be turned on, exposing  
the user.

We should not encourage that kind of option in the MRL. This is not  
what the MRL is meant for. As stated, I would rather use a dedicated  
function.

Pierre.