[fptex] Kpathsea problems

LUK ShunTim ShunTim.Luk at polyu.edu.hk
Tue Apr 8 17:10:37 CEST 2003


Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>>Any idea/pointer as to what happened or is this a bug?
> 
> 
> Try to run :
> 
> c:\>kpsecheck --shared
> 
> It it tells you that 'Kpathsea file mapping is set up', then that mean
> you have some kpathsea program running (hint: ispell.exe). Try to shut
> it down and rerun your command.

It says "No kpathsea file mapping set up."; and problem persists.

> 
> I have put kpathsea hash-tables in shared memory. The problem is that
> you can't reinitialize them. Some time is saved at initialization (no
> need to rebuild them !), but the drawback is that if you change ls-R,
> then you need to be sure to shutdown any program using them.
> 
> Fabrice
> 

Thanks for the explanation.

Regards,
ST
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