Re: [AVFS] unrar support for urar module

Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:09:14 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.avfs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 2006-02-16 11:59, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >> I attached a patch to make the urar module try unrar if rar failes to 
> >> execute.
> >>
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Ralf, does this look OK to you too?
> 
> The patch itself looks good except for a little problem. av_wait_prog
> can return -EIO even if "rar" exists. This is the case when the "rar"
> exits with a return value != 0. But I think if "rar" exits with an
> error, "unrar" will probably too so get_rar_file() aborts anyway.

Yes, also it might be a good idea to cache the result (a static
variable should do fine) so that the check for 'rar' is only done
once.

Miklos


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