Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 12 d?cembre 2005 ? 08:45 -0500, Patrick Lam a ?crit : > >>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? > > > This may become problematic if a cache file already exists in the font > directory. In this case, a new cache file will be created in /var/cache, > but won't be used as the other location is tried first. In that case, the directory effectively won't have a per-directory cache if the one in the font dir is stale. This is not a big disaster, as fontconfig will simply place that directory in the global cache. It's suboptimal, to be sure, but I can't think of a better solution. pat
