FcDirSave(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so this page is FcDirSave(3), and the name says it's DEPRECATED: formerly used to save a directory cache. She's retired, bestie — but we still stan the lore. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the exact shape of it:

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>

FcBool FcDirSave (FcFontSet *set, FcStrSet *dirs, const FcChar8 *dir);

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So here's the tea: FcDirSave now does literally nothing aside from returning FcFalse. That's it. That's the whole function. 💀

Back in the day, it used to create the per-directory cache file for dir and populate it with the fonts in set and the subdirectories in dirs. Iconic behavior, honestly. 🎀

But that whole job is now automatically managed by FcDirCacheLoad and FcDirCacheRead, so nobody has to hand-hold the cache situation anymore. slay for automation. ✨

Heads up, bestie: this function is marked DEPRECATED, and it returns FcFalse. Don't expect it to save anything for you. 🫶

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xoxo, your manual-page bestie 💖 — this page is from Fontconfig 2.17.0, dated 27 June 2025. periodt. 👑