clone 388399 -1 retitle -1 Font cache, when in /tmp, should use per-user directories severity -1 important submitter -1 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stop
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So somewhere, there is a very, very wrong assumption that it's ok to use a >> fixed, user-invariant path under /tmp for writing out fonts. > > [...] Why should it be more wrong to use a user-invariant path in > /tmp than a user-invariant path in /var? Note that we cannot use > directories created with mktemp or so, because it's not possible to pass > on the directory name from the process that creates the dir, to the one > that creates the font and to the one that uses it. But you are right, Steve, that it might cause problems. I make this a separate bug, and I'm already investigating a solution. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
