Re: [Devel] Close on exec for font files

[Scott Long]

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 10:35 am, you wrote:
> Around 10 o'clock on Dec 26, Scott Long wrote:
> > He's probably spawning worker processes from a process that uses
> > FreeType, and his problem is that all of FreeType's open files remain
> > open in the child process. It seems like an issue of aesthetics.
>
> As you may know, I use FreeType in every application that I run on my
> desktop; it's a part of X these days.  Most of the applications I use
> don't have any idea that FreeType is involved, the only way I can get the
> files closed would be to add new calls at every level -- some of the APIs
> aren't mine to change, so I'm pretty constrained as to what I can do.

It still seems, though, that when a suitable API *is* present (i.e. 
FT_Done_FreeType) it is better to just use that API rather than introducing 
UNIX-specific code into a cross-platform library. If similar issues arise in 
Windows (I have no idea, don't program Windows) then this solves the problem 
on both platforms instead of just one.

Scott Long