[tex-live] Distributing Customised TeX Live
Fabrice Popineau
Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr
Wed Jan 5 16:47:57 CET 2005
> That is indeed a problem, but isn't a better solution to have the TeX
> tool that generates fonts on the fly also set the font-file
> protections for public read access (on Unix, "chmod a+r
> /tmp/foo.600pk"). Our MakeTeXPK script has always done that (the RCS
> history here shows chmod commands in the original 1995 version).
The problem occured only on NT/2K/XP because of the specific ACLs
mechanism which runs besides the old file attributes mechanism. The C
version of mktex* mimics the shell version. However, if you do your
chmod and so but the ACLs do not match what you need, that won't work
anyway. You need to be sure your generated file will inherit the ACL and
that the ACL he will get is everyone:read . I didn't want to put C code
for that in the tex & friends source code. It was located in
TeXSetup.exe only, hence the hack with the TEMP dir.
Fabrice
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