Around 23 o'clock on Jan 13, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > How about using /dev/null? I think that will be a disaster for root -- anyone who can write to /dev will probably scramble things hopelessly. There's a complicated little locking dance involved in managing the cache file which uses rename to atomically replace the cache. You would end up with a regular file for /dev/null in this case, something you probably don't want... -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20050113/f77f9f19/attachment.pgp
