[Fontconfig] Re: fc-cache loops when cyclic symlinks in fontdirectories exist

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 17:33 +0200, Mike FABIAN wrote:

> > fc-cache loops when cyclic symlinks in fontdirectories exist

> > mfabian at magellan:~$ ll /usr/share/fonts/ttt
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 10? 11 16:20 /usr/share/fonts/ttt -> /usr/share/fonts/
> > mfabian at magellan:~$ 

Yeah, don't do that. We could refuse to traverse symlinks which pointed
at a directory already scanned.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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