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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by jbk on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:42AM (#14409556)
That's exactly the point above. See my above comment.
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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by Filligree on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:57AM (#14409639)
I'm not sure, it sounds like you're saying we'd need to copy memory.

The shared memory segment can be a GPU image buffer, so I don't think that's true.

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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by jbk on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:03AM (#14409684)
See comment above with "the solution".

Either you need to have multi-process and correct IPC, or you need to copy.

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