[vlc-devel] [PATCH] non-blocking filewriter

[Sébastien Escudier]

Quoting Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:

>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:46:30 +0300, Jarmo Torvinen
> <jarmo.torvinen at jutel.fi> wrote:
> > The patch adds following parameters to file sout plugin:
> >
> > "sout-file-non-block"               enables/disable the non-blocking mode
>
> Perhaps this could be autodetected with fstat() instead of adding yet
> another command line option?

I think there can be another use of this non blocking mode.
When using duplicate module with file output in one of the duplicates, if write
is blocking, the others output will freeze as well.
So maybe this option is not useless.

Regards.