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To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
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> Mike Pritchard writes:
> >You guys didn't read my whole mail message.  I also stated
> >that if the database were to contain a list of all files,
> >then locate would also be changed to verify that any
> >files it prints out are accessible by the user running locate.

Does this imply that you intend to make "locate" a suid program?  Otherwise
I'll just skip locate and parse the database myself.

... JG