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Subject: Re: locate
To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:15:10 +0200 (MET DST)
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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