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Re: findutils -- feature request for database with relative pathnames
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: findutils -- feature request for database with relative pathnames |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:38:16 +0100 |
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, James Youngman wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Miloslav Trma? <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> It might make sense to automatically look for a database on every
>>> mounted file system (assuming a specific relative path). I don't know
>>> whether it should be the default.
>>
>> It probably should not, I would guess. Most people for now would not
>> be using a database of this type (since it is useful mainly for people
>> using clusters of machines), and requiring locate to look for such
>> databases would mean that locate would always fail on clients of
>> unresponsive NFS servers.
>
> It could actually be worse, causing highly unpleasant timeouts.
> I'd say definitely not.
Yes. When I wrote "fail" I meant "hang forever".
See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?12044
James.