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by l33t2328 1523 days ago
What is a “hostile fork?”
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Probably talking about libav. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libav has some pointers.
One that have the same binary name as yours for compability reasons, but then proceeds to be not so compatible with slight command line options. Thus, made a whole lot of confusion because people didn't expect that depending on what distro they were using they could be using similar but incompatible software with the same executable filename.