[cairo] Re: User-font API, take 3

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:20 -0800, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
> Open questions:
> 
> - Should we add a mutex to the cairo_user_font_face_t and lock it
>   around scaled_font creation?  I have the use case in mind that
>   the user will look for some user_data attached to the font_face
>   in scaled_font_create callback and if it's not there, it will
>   create and attach it.  That is a bit racey.  Since we have
>   mutex objects at our hands reach and they cannot be a bottle
>   here, I suggest we do that for the user. 

This seems to be a non-issue now since Carl made cairo lock the font map
around scaled_font creation.  I'm not sure if we want to lock the font
face around all callbacks to user or leave that to the user.

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