Lubos Lunak wrote: > However, when I tested the 2.3.90 release yesterday, I was originally > disappointed to see it performed noticeably worse than the last stable > version. Short version: Please apply the attached patch. Longer version: The > problem turned out to be directories that contain files that fontconfig > doesn't seem to use yet it analyses them (.pcf.gz files). If a directory > contains only .pcf.gz files and has no subdirectories, then the code that the > patch removes will not write a cache file, yet the return FcTrue means the > directory has been successfully cached. However if you look in > FcCacheReadDirs() you can see that if it can't use the cache file it will > call FcDirScanConfig(). So I suggest the attached patch which will write a > more or less empty cache file even in such directories. Yes, I've applied your patch. The current implementation of FcDirCacheWrite does allow it to successfully write zero-length cache files. (In the past, it would have crashed, but I seem to have fixed those cases.) pat
