Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by siltpotato on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:50PM (#25907855)

Hold on, what? Okay, return false if they aren't equal, then open another process to repeat this method once again in the shell... I can't guess the reason. Would you know if there is any reason this might have been done?

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Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by boring_twenties on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:31PM (#25919439)

I wouldn't know the real reason for sure, but this seems plausible:

1) They got tired of having to modify C code and wait for the deploy cycle to modify the filter

2) Using, for example, the database would be more work than calling a shell script. On top of that, it might actually be beyond the abilities of the programmer involved.

3) The C code executes on an arbitrary machine. Hence the ssh to a specific machine, so that the shell script would only have to be maintained in one place

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Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by saagarjha on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:03PM (#25910165)

strcmp returns 0 if the strings are equal.

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