[Fontconfig] Cache timestamping vs NFS

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Jul 25 15:55:01 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 14:40 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Why will invalidate existing cache files?

Because fontconfig will not support multiple cache file formats. That's
really nasty.

> Or are you saying adding the directory time to the cache file will corrupt 
> it for old libfontconfig?

Each version of fontconfig supports only one cache file format, so the
new version will use new cache files while the old one uses old cache
files.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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