Subject: Re: locate(1) (was Re: CVS commit: basesrc)
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/08/2000 10:09:27
In message <200003080044.QAA00988@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
	on Tue, 07 Mar 2000 16:44:14 -0800,
	Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>  itohy@netbsd.org (ITOH Yasufumi) wrote:
> 
>  > If the find(1) could sort dir entries (as FreeBSD's; see patch below)
>  > and if the update script used the funnction, such are large temporary
>  > area would not be required.
> 
> I like it!  I'd say "commit it!"
It looks like nice.

How much memory will be consumed by find(1)?  Is it OK under all ports?

Another solution is adding a configuration value for temporary directory
used by locate.updatedb to weekly.conf.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>