[vorbis] ov_open/ov_test weirdness

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On December 9, 2002 07:34 pm, Monty wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:55:01AM -0700, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been playing with a little player, and it seems I can't ov_open a
> > file twice?
>
> I apologize for the incompleteness of the main doc on the following point:
>
> Like with ov_open(), if ov_test() succeeds, it takes complete ownership
> of the passed in FILE *.  Do not fclose() it later as you do below.
> Your trouble is most likely a heap corruption in stdio.
>
> Any successful lib call that takes a FILE * takes ownership of that
> FILE *; the close is carried out in the ov_clear().

Is there a reason for that? I mean, why doen't it take a filename instead?

> Monty

Also, do you know why ov_test is identical to ov_open?

<p>Thanks for the quick reply :)


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