Re: Patches to findutils 4.9.0-1's updatedb to do locking, allow filenames with spaces & progress monitoring, exclude /dev on Cygwin, etc.

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2022-02-24 Dan Harkless <cygwin-list21@harkless.org> wrote:
> Howdy.  I posted last August to the Cygwin list about some problems I was
> having with the updatedb script, including that it was taking more than 24
> hours to complete, and then colliding with the next cron run, and that I had
> no way to monitor progress (short of using Sysinternals Process Explorer's
> very awkward GUI for this).

> I'm finally getting around to sending in a patch (to bug-findutils and the
> Cygwin list, to which I'm currently subscribed) to address these issues,
> along with some others, a few of which represent small changes in behavior:
[...]

Good morning,

at first glance you seem have missed documenting a major change:

The script does not use a NUL-separated list (find -print0 | \
sort -z | frcode -0) anymore and will therefore stop handling
filenames with newlines correctly.

cu Andreas
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