[Tilesathome] Batik and forking

[Jiri Klement]

I have no idea. The comment was added by deelkar in revision 5682.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at sspaeth.de> wrote:
> hi Jiri, while I am reshuffling the t at h client code, I was noticing some clumsy workarounds with regards to forking and batik.
>
> tilesGen.pl:
> 437              # compress before fork so we don't get temp files mangled.
> 438                      # Workaround for batik support.
>
> This prevents us from compressing the files in the background, which would be nice and make the code simpler too. What is the exact reason?
>
> When we are here, the direcotory has been moved once anyway, so all temporary files are better written by now. So something is wrong if this is needed.
>
> Can we fix batik to write it's temporary files before we are at the compression part?
>
> Thanks,
> spaetz
>