Re: [EME] Uint8Array parameters may be modified while scheduled task is pending

The same issue exists in WebCrypto. It would be nice to have a
consistent approach across specifications.

...Mark

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> On Mar 3, 2014, at 3:36 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:16 AM, David Dorwin <ddorwin@google.com> wrote:
>> I believe there is a similar issue with MSE, and it was decided that such
>> behavior is undefined.
>
> Seems like a bad way to deal with this.
>
>> Does anyone object to the behavior also being
>> undefined for EME?
>
> I object to both MSE and EME introducing a race condition like that.
> IIRC, this issue already came up with Web Audio. CCing roc for the
> details.
>
> I think the method should act as if it made a copy of the data before
> returning. In practice, it probably makes sense to have some sort of
> copy-on-write mechanism behind the scenes to avoid copying when no one
> is actually writing to the original buffer.
>
>> Do we need to explicitly document this anywhere?
>
> Yes!
>
> --
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen@hsivonen.fi
> https://hsivonen.fi/
>

Received on Monday, 3 March 2014 15:39:40 UTC