Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:15:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: locate Message-ID: <199604010815.KAA21390@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199604010600.WAA01868@freefall.freebsd.org> from Mike Pritchard at "Mar 31, 96 10:00:10 pm"
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Mike Pritchard wrote: > What do people think of the idea of changing locate & its database > update script to keep a list of ALL files on the system, and > not just those that can been seen by the world. No, please. If the owner doesn't want to expose his files to the world, locate should respect this. > Another option is to keep two databases, one of all the public > files, as it does now. And a complete database that is > accessed with some new option on locate that would verify that > the file is accessible to the user before printing it out. I'd prefer a new option to locate which gives the name of (an) alternate database(s), so you could run locate for yourself. This could also be used to locate files on NFS-mounted filesystems. tg
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