Lubos Lunak wrote: > Any cache file I'd say (and yes, I ran fc-cache as root). AFAIK if you > truncate a file that's mmap-ed, any access to the no longer existing part of > the file results in bad things. I don't know the structure of the cache file, > it seems to me it can be built in several steps for different architectures, > but I'd expect that the code can't cope with the data simply changing under > its hands, and unless the format specifically prevents that I'd expect that > to happen. Would there be any problem if you simply unlinked the old file > before writing the new one? I now use FcAtomic to write to these cache files. Try the latest CVS version. pat
