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fontconfig package

  1. Bug #820134
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 820134

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In , Oswald Buddenhagen (ossi-kde) wrote :

ref https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272870

fontconfig's usage of mmap may lead to sigbus when the mapped file disappears, e.g. due to an NFS failure. this is fatal if the crashed application happens to be the screensaver.
consequently, it should be possible to disable mmap use alltogether.