When async issues its inner seek via ffurl_seek, it treats failures as
EOF being reached. This is not consistent with the behavior of other
protocols (e.g. http, cache) which continue to tolerate reads after
failed seeks, and therefore does not interact correctly with them.
A common pattern where this manifests itself is where avio_seek is
called with pos to be the end-of-file - the http range-request would
fail here, and async would set io_eof_reached to 1. The background
thread would then refuse to read more bytes, and subsequent reads would
only empty the fifo and end in an error.
Presumably the code may have expected subsequent seeks to unset the
io_eof_reached but this is not guaranteed to be true - a subsequent seek
that lands in the AVIOContext's buffer (the fact that the
previously-failed avio_seek leaves the AVIOContext's buffer intact also
suggests that follow-up reads are expected to be tolerated) would not be
issued to the async_seek function, and when that buffer is drained only
async_read calls would follow, leading to the same error just described.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
These casts are unnecessary, and may safely be removed.
Found by enabling -Wpedantic on clang 3.7.
Tested with FATE.
Reviewed-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde@gmail.com>
Derek Buitenhuis
Michael Niedermayer
Bryan Huh
Ganesh Ajjanagadde
Zhang Rui
Matt Oliver