[Fontconfig] Re: Patch: fix endless loop problem

[Patrick Lam]

Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Patrick Lam <plam at MIT.EDU> さんは書きました:
> 
> 
>>Mike FABIAN wrote:
>>
>>>The return value of FcCacheReadString () is zero because the end of
>>>the cache file has been reached but "name_buf" still contains the
>>>previous contents, therefore it never breaks (by the way, it might be
>>>a good idea to check the return value of the read () a few lines later
>>>as well).
>>
>>Looks good to me.  I've committed this patch.  Maybe it'll help with the
>>weird .fonts.cache-2 cyclic behaviour too.
> 
> Unfortunaly not. I still could reproduce the cyclic behaviour today
> even with my patch applied.

There was also some really bad behaviour with the global cache which I
just fixed.  That should not have addressed the cyclic behaviour, but
now the global caches might actually work again.

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