font files not read/processed when they are symlinks?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/24/18 04:51 AM, balducci at units.it wrote:
> Might it be that font files are NOT read/loaded by the X server when
> they are symbolic links?

Correct - since the X server is often run with raised privileges, it
was fixed last year to use O_NOFOLLOW to not follow symbolic links
when handling font files:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxfont/commit/7b377456f95d2ec3ead40f4fb74ea620191f88c8

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