Keith Packard wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 02:21 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > >>Humm, and seems like a slash is missing somewhere: I've added the slash and committed the Makefile.am patch. Thanks! >>BTW, how are different users handled exactly? Isn't it possible >>to harm other users? To answer Behdad's original question, fc-cache generates a cache for each font directory. If you run it as root, it'll generate caches for all font directories on the system, while if you run it as a user, it'll fail to generate caches for systemwide font directories. In principle, it should then generate caches for user-installed fonts (e.g. in ~/.fonts). Then fontconfig creates a 'global' cache which contains any fonts which weren't in a per-directory cache. This is slower. > Rats. We need to keep the 'truely global' cache directory separate from > per-user cache directories. That's annoying. > > /var/cache/fontconfig should be root writable, per-user caches should > live 'elsewhere'. I don't really want to create another per-user > directory in their home directory, so perhaps we can stuff it in > ~/.fonts/fontconfig ? How about just: if you can't create the cache file in /var/cache/fontconfig, then create it in its original location? Then when we try to open a cache file, we obviously need to try the original location first. This is not quite as good as separating per-user and root caches, but it may be good enough. Comments? pat
