[Fontconfig] patch: crosscheck font caches

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Nov 1 07:03:58 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 10:13 -0500, Patrick Lam wrote:
> I can't reproduce the broken-cache problem on my computer, although I
> can verify that the broken caches that other people send me are indeed
> broken.  I don't know when this corruption is occuring; note that it
> also throws out all the strings and langsets in the cache file.  This
> patch adds an assertion that will abort fc-cache when it's trying to
> write a corrupted cache file.  If some of the people experiencing
> corrupted caches could try this patch and tell me under what
> circumstances corruption is happening, that would help a lot, because
> I'm somewhat at a loss.
> 

I have updated the rpm in Rawhide to todays cvs plus this patch.

Matthias




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