FcCacheSubdir(3)

✨ FcCacheSubdir ✨

okay bestie, so this is the FcCacheSubdir(3) page from the fontconfig manual, and honestly it's giving tiny-but-mighty πŸ’…


🌸 NAME 🌸

FcCacheSubdir β€” returns the i'th subdirectory, that's literally the whole job, and she does it flawlessly πŸŽ€


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>

const FcChar8 * FcCacheSubdir (const FcCache *cache, int i);

πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

so the set of subdirectories stored in a cache file? yeah, they're indexed by this function ✨ like this is the lil key that opens drawer number i πŸ—„οΈ

i should range from 0 to n-1, where n is the return value from FcCacheNumSubdir. no cap β€” go outside that range and you're on your own, bestie 😭


lowkey the whole thing is: you got a cache, you got an index, you get a subdirectory back. simple as. 🫢 Not me being obsessed with a two-line function fr fr πŸ’€

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that's the whole page, diva πŸ’œ it's from Fontconfig 2.17.0, dated 27 June 2025 β€” iconic, no notes β­πŸŒˆπŸ“

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