[Fontconfig] fc-cache sometimes looses fonts
Patrick Lam
plam at MIT.EDU
Wed Nov 2 18:01:52 EST 2005
Mike FABIAN wrote:
> And now the font appears to be gone:
>
> mfabian at magellan:~/.fonts$ fc-list : family file | grep -i zenkai
> mfabian at magellan:~/.fonts$
Not only that, but .fonts.cache-2 then becomes corrupted. Interesting,
eh? This seems to be the source of the cache corruption; if you run
fc-cat on fonts.cache-2 at this point, you'll find that it segfaults.
I added an extra FcDirScan to this codepath. I believe that this fixes
the cache corruption problems. I hate to admit that I'm not entirely
sure why the old code had cache corruption problems, but I'll look into
that just a bit longer. It seems to make sense though.
pat
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