[Fontconfig] Re: patch to fix endless loop in fc-cache

Mike FABIAN mfabian at suse.de
Tue Feb 7 08:17:54 PST 2006


Patrick Lam <plam at MIT.EDU> さんは書きました:

> Mike FABIAN wrote:
>> by Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>.
>> 
>> fc-cache did loop endless if a subdirectory was a symlink
>> pointing to a directory higher up, e.g.
>> ln -s /usr/share/fonts /usr/share/fonts/ttt
>
> I've committed this patch.  The other patch doesn't seem to be
> necessary; fontconfig-using apps don't crash for me (whether or not
> they're creating global caches) when there's a symlink cycle in the
> directory structure.

It looks like you have committed both patches to CVS.

And I think both were indeed necessary.

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