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authorMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-10-31 16:09:02 +0100
committerMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-10-31 16:24:04 +0100
commit31bf820a2689974cbc1e15e0813987c5da14a8b8 (patch)
tree00d8f3956eaa0b2e9e148a13b46abd833724a598 /libavutil
parent1b216421494f4a34be29804ba088b983a2dc98e1 (diff)
downloadffmpeg-31bf820a2689974cbc1e15e0813987c5da14a8b8.tar.gz
av_tempfile: document umask() issue
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'libavutil')
-rw-r--r--libavutil/file.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libavutil/file.h b/libavutil/file.h
index f637005d87..e05c87cdb5 100644
--- a/libavutil/file.h
+++ b/libavutil/file.h
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ void av_file_unmap(uint8_t *bufptr, size_t size);
* *prefix can be a character constant; *filename will be allocated internally.
* @return file descriptor of opened file (or -1 on error)
* and opened file name in **filename.
+ * @note On very old libcs it is necceary to set a secure umask before
+ * calling this, av_tempfile() cant call umask itself as it is used in
+ * libraries and could interfere with the calling application.
*/
int av_tempfile(const char *prefix, char **filename, int log_offset, void *log_ctx);