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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: locate(1) manpage
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Mark Ovens wrote:

> 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).

I think it means this....  In the shell, "echo *" just gets files in
the current directory, but "locate '*'" will get you all files. i.e. in
the shell, you must specify one '/' for each '/' in the filename which
will get matched.  Am I making any sense at all here?  I don't feel like
it...

> 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

last word on that line should be "understands", you might like to fix
that while you're there.

>      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,

No they don't. "not byte order independent" == "byte order dependent" ==
what the second sentence says.  Perhaps the text should be changed to
"byte order dependent", I hate double negatives.

> 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.

I thought network byte order was the same thing as big endian byte
order, though I'm not too sure.

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