[pdftex] BUG pdftex-1.40.11 TeXLive 2010 (win32)

Alexander Grahn A.Grahn at hzdr.de
Tue Apr 12 11:11:12 CEST 2011


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:36:33AM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote:
>> #ifdef WIN32
>>   {
>>     /* block other processes from messing with the file */
>>     long len;
>>     fseek (file, 0L, SEEK_END);
>>     len = ftell (file);
>>     fseek (file, 0L, SEEK_SET);
>>     if(_locking(_fileno(file), _LK_NBLCK, len)) {
>>       fclose(file);
>>       error(-1, "Couldn't lock file '%s'", fileName->getCString());
>>       errCode = errOpenFile;
>>       return;
>>     }
>>   }
>> #endif
>
>I found that there does not exist the above code in the original
>xpdf and in the source in TL repository.
>I don't remember why my PDFDoc.cc differs from the original one.
>I'll remove the above and the bug will be fixed in TL 2011.

Thank you very much for finding the error! Would it be possible to have
a fixed pdftex in TL 2010 by updating via tlmgr?

Alexander


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