Re: Re: font servers [was: some XFree86 5.0 questions]

"James H. Cloos Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
>>>>> "Juliusz" == Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> writes:

Juliusz> adding support to fontconfig/Xft to access fonts over HTTP,
Juliusz> over FTP or over your favourite file-sharing protocol would
Juliusz> be a days' work.

Effectively, it is already there.  User-mode filesystem drivers for eg
ftp, http (w/ or w/o tls) et al are available.  Some are OS-specific;
others act like a user-mode nfs server; others are libraries to be
used via LD_PRELOAD.  

-JimC
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