On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:46:11 +0200
Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:33:10 +0200, wm4 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:36:47 +0200
> > Luca Barbato <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 

> > What is _really_ ugly is that av_strerror needs a buffer, instead of
> > returning a static string.
> 
> If it calls the system strerror_r(), then it is unavoidable. Note, by the
> way, that while it may be tempting to assume that strerror() returns static
> strings, it does not. Notably on GNU/Linux, the implementation of
> strerror() is not thread-safe; I have seen it crash on reentry.

It's a bit strange that a libav error code can be a libc error code in
the first place.
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