Mon, Oct 22, 2018 ve 04:40:46PM +0200 luigi scarso napsal(a):
#    On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 4:32 PM Tomas Hala <[1]tomas.hala@mendelu.cz>
#    wrote:
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#      Mon, Oct 22, 2018 ve 04:22:43PM +0200 luigi scarso napsal(a):
#      #    On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:25 PM Tomas Hala
#      <[1][2]tomas.hala@mendelu.cz>
#      #    wrote:
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#      #      Hi all,
#      #
#      #      doing some test with fonts I discovered that
#      #
#      #      mtxrun--script fonts --reload
#      #
#      #      crashed (line 479, TL 2018) on existing directory if this
#      directory has
#      #      incorrect permissions (in tested case I set 000 for making the
#      directory
#      #      and its subtree completely invisible).
#      #
#      #    what do you mean with "crashed"  ? 
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#      $ chmod 000 /home/thala/texmf/fonts/fffctx-fonts-for-testing/
#      $ mtxrun --script fonts --reload
#      resolvers       | trees | analyzing 'home:texmf'
#      /home/share/texlive/lastedition/bin/i386-linux/mtxrun:479: cannot open
#      /home/thala/texmf/fonts/fffctx-fonts-for-testing/: Permission denied
#
#      and it stops doing nothing else.
#
#    ok, but  as far as I can see it's not a crash, 
#    it's just an error like "open file foo"  when  you have not the right
#    permissions on foo.
#    In other words: mtxrun  doesn't have  the right permissions in that folder
#    so it' correct that it stops
#    *and* exits. If it stops and hang forever, of if it stops with a seg.
#    fault,  then it's an error, 
#    --
#    luigi
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I understand the explanation, thank you. But why it stops? I can imagine the
behaviour with skipping inaccessible directories (eg. with some warning
messages)... Is there any way how to persuade it to continue the work?