[Live-devel] Bug: "Unable to find emulated OSS device"

[Ross Finlayson]

>wis-streamer currently does not work on a large number of systems due to
>a bug in sscanf.

If that's the case, then it's "sscanf()" that should be fixed.  The 
code for it is Open Source - just like "wis-streamer".  It should be 
possible - by looking at the code - to figure out *exactly* what is 
going wrong.

>There is a workaround to handle this in a previous post to the list:

I'm not going to consider adding this 'workaround' to the code unless 
and until someone explains/convinces me of all of the following:
1/ Exactly what the bug is that is causing this.
2/ That a lot of people really are affected by this bug (in 
particular, that the bug is not just in one version of the runtime 
library code that has subsequently been fixed).
3/ That the proposed 'workaround' is the best way to overcome the 
problem, and that there are no other instances of the problem (e.g., 
in the other places where "sscanf()" is called) in the "wis-streamer" 
code (or, for that matter, anywhere in the "LIVE555 Streaming Media" 
code).

>I have filed a bug report with Ubuntu, hoping that they will escalate to
>the libc developers:

Again, it would be better to have first identified *exactly* what the 
problem is.  Remember, You Have Complete Source Code.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/