file-cache not working anymore

[Frederik Fouvry]

Symptoms:

I tried to load file-cache with

(file-cache-add-directory-using-find "~/.")

which used to work, but now it only gives an empty cache.  When I
changed the arguments in the call to `find' in that function from

   ...
   "-name"
   (cond
    (file-cache-find-command-posix-flag
     "\\*")
    ((eq system-type 'windows-nt)
     "'*'")
    (t
     "*"))
   "-print"

to

   ...
   "-print"

(which is sufficient for `find' to give the desired output at least on
certain systems), then it worked again.  It seems that the call with
"-name \\*" does not produce the desired effect.  

On my system `file-cache-find-command-posix-flag' is t.

Note: I do not use file-cache often, therefore I do not know the point
at which it stopped working.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-11-25 on cc.at.coli.uni-sb.de
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40201000
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  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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