Re: regarding open file descriptors in Pango

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

You are on your own re implementing FT_Face caching on PangoFT2 fontmaps.  If
you come up with a cache, I'll consider upstreaming it.

behdad

On 13-10-29 04:45 AM, Parth Kanungo wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I observed that in pangoft2, the file descriptor opened for the font file,
> does not get closed until we destroy the PangoFontMap.
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> If we create 2 or 3 instances of PangoFontMap and try to render for different
> sizes, for every size, pangoft2 opens a file descriptor.
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> This is creating an issue in my module, as multiple file descriptors get opened.
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> To achieve my goal, I have closed the file descriptor in
> pango_ft2_unlock_face() by calling FT_Done_Face().
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> But, this implementation opens and closes the file every time, which is a bit
> costly.
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> Is there any other workaround for this ?
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> Thanks and regards,
>
> Parth Kanungo
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