If --syslog is specified on the commandline then vlc loads the logger in file mode first, because --file-logging is the default. This is counter intuitive for users, they expect *only* syslog mode to be active. Note that the logger module can only have one mode active at the sametime, either html, text or syslog.
(cherry picked from commit 5e2f7b2f90dbab0488d62557ba59159925a88e3a)

(cherry picked from commit a45ba22e)

(cherry picked from commit 918910e2)

(cherry picked from commit d3ab3afe)

(cherry picked from commit 6094cb67)

We don't want to leak descriptors to child PROCESSES (!= threads) such
as the pseudo-CGI interface. The socket wrappers ahve already been doing
that for a while. Unfortunately, there are still many "leaks", through
underlying libraries, opendir(), fopen(), etc. And then, this is not
thread-safe (we leak if another thread calls fork() between open() and
fcntl()). This is a well-known limitation in POSIX anyway.
(cherry picked from commit 90ba04f4)

(cherry picked from commit 471fa3a8)
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(cherry picked from commit a5ad91e7)
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(cherry picked from commit 29a15bf0)
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This is a feature, but almost fully copied from existing avcodec code.

Cherry-Picked from:
[d47c4459]
[74095abc]
[2b737862]

(cherry picked from commit 64632922)
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(cherry picked from commit 356fafa5)
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(cherry picked from commit eeaa54cf)
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(cherry picked from commit 3f7a8904)
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(cherry picked from commit 74d28b3e)
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(cherry picked from commit 9e211e0c)
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Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>

The code was never enabled.

It should fix a potential segfault when the vout is closed.

(cherry picked from commit 8a9bd2d8)
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(cherry picked from commit 264444a1)
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(cherry picked from commit 2624f9af)
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(cherry picked from commit aab61e71)
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(cherry picked from commit cb89f6d5)
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(cherry picked from commit fc4b7b3c)
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(cherry picked from commit 9dd13ebf)

(cherry picked from commit 1f0135f4)
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It has little benefits in general, (esp. in our usecase) and huge disadvantages for files on network mounts.
"Basically, IOKit should be so fast and efficient, that there are few usecases left for mmap() on Darwin."
(cherry picked from commit 400b6736)
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(cherry picked from commit 7d7a42b8)
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(cherry picked from commit eca65494)
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See http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/x264.git/?a=commit;h=c89bc900a3bf0d4c4c728ad378703970b4f14e18 for more details.
(cherry picked from commit 229a8957)
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