James Cloos wrote: >>>>>>"Patrick" == Patrick Lam <plam@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > Patrick> I think it's one per directory; after all, all fonts in the > Patrick> same directory have the same pathname! > > Somehow as I was writing that missive I was thinking that the string > passed to open(2) would have to remain around. Obviously it can be > free(2)d, so that isn't really an issue. However, every time you ask for the font filename, you're going to have to create a copy of that filename and keep it around. I can't think of a way to avoid that, unfortunately; embedding a pointer to the filename in the FcPattern and destroying it in FcPatternDestroy is probably least bad. pat
