Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:04:25 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: locate(1) manpage Message-ID: <20000820130425.B254@parish>
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The manpage for locate(1) looks like it could do with some editing.
I'll do it, but can someone explain what the following are supposed to
mean?
The 2nd paragraph of DESCRIPTION says:
Shell globbing and quoting characters (``*'', ``?'', ``\'', ``[''
and ``]'') may be used in pattern, although they will have to be
escaped from the shell. Preceding any character with a backslash
(``\'') eliminates any special meaning which it may have. The
matching differs in that no characters must be matched explicitly,
including slashes (``/'').
The last sentence just doesn't make sense, no matter how many times I
read it (looking at the source code doesn't make it any clearer
either).
The last paragraph of BUGS says:
The locate database is not byte order independent. It is not
possible to share the databases between machines with different
byte order. The current locate implementation understand
databases in host byte order or network byte order if both
architectures use the same integer size. So you can read on a
FreeBSD/i386 machine (little endian) a locate database which was
built on SunOS/sparc machine (big endian, net).
The first 2 sentences contradict each other, and the last sentence
appears wrong unless it means that a SunOS database can be read
because it is created in network byte order even though the machine is
big endian.
Can someone clarify this for me?
Thanks.
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