[Fontconfig] MD5 checksum? Why? & mmap alignment on same machine in 32.v.64 mode

[Patrick Lam]

(Pedantic: fontconfig isn't object oriented.)

Aside from that: I'm not quite sure what you're asking. As Akira pointed
out, MD5 is only used for directory names.

Caches are versioned and there have been changes to the cache format. The
programmatic fontconfig API to access the cache is public and fixed. For
instance:
http://freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-devel/fcdircacheload.html

pat



On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:56 PM, L. A. Walsh <fonts at tlinx.org> wrote:

>
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
>> On 14-06-20 02:13 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On x86_64 machines, when addressing the cache, if all types were
>>> listed as being "[u]int{32,64}_t", when wouldn't the cache format
>>> on such machines be identical whether you were running in 32-bit
>>> or 64-bit mode?
>>>
>>> The separate caches are mandated by the public API that cannot be
>>> changed anymore
>>>
>>>
>> Why would a *temporary* cache be part of a public API that cannot be
> changed?
> I'm more than a bit astonished that someone would think that a cache should
> be part of a public API?   Why would anyone do that?
>
> Where is the object oriented design?  How can the format be upgraded or
> improved?
>
> Who (or what product) is a "consumer" of the API?  Why would
> some other application outside of the library need fixed access to
> an internal cache format?  Are you saying that if someone finds a way
> to create a security exploit using this public cache API that cannot
> change,
> then there would be no way to fix it?
>
> Caches are usually (in my experience, always), private data stores that
> speed access.  Example -- squid has a cache, but it would never be part of
> a
> public API, as a cache, by definition, is supposed to be something that is
> for
> "fast and private access".   The kernel has multiple caches -- but in a
> 20+ year old product, they don't have any public API to internal caches
> that
> would ever be called stable.  Why does a font library need to publish a
> fixed
> cache format?
>
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