diff -rup fontconfig-2.6.0.orig//src/fccache.c fontconfig-2.6.0/src/fccache.c
--- fontconfig-2.6.0.orig//src/fccache.c	2007-11-14 01:36:41.000000000 +0100
+++ fontconfig-2.6.0/src/fccache.c	2008-11-07 17:08:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ FcDirCacheProcess (FcConfig *config, con
 	    break;
         fd = FcDirCacheOpenFile (cache_hashed, &file_stat);
         if (fd >= 0) {
+	  if (dir_stat.st_mtime <= file_stat.st_mtime) {
 	    ret = (*callback) (fd, &file_stat, &dir_stat, closure);
 	    close (fd);
 	    if (ret)
@@ -264,6 +265,8 @@ FcDirCacheProcess (FcConfig *config, con
 		    FcStrFree (cache_hashed);
 		break;
 	    }
+	  } else
+	    close (fd);
 	}
     	FcStrFree (cache_hashed);
     }