This is useful for people who want index their home directory:
$ env LOCATE_CONFIG=$HOME/.locate.rc /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
Submitted by: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Remove the temp directory in trap.
Replace the buggy awk script with a correct perl script.
Don't make a copy of the input data anymore if the input is already
sorted (option -presort). This scheme avoid large temporary files in
/tmp.
- Use MAP_FAILED instead of the constant -1 to indicate
failure (required by POSIX).
- Removed flag arguments of '0' (required by POSIX).
- Fixed code which expected an error return of 0.
- Fixed code which thought any address with the high bit set
was an error.
- Check for failure where no checks were present.
Discussed with: bde
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Old locate(1) programs still works with the new database format, print
some garbage for 8 bit characters, but don't core (maybe except char 30).
7-Bit Puritan should not notice any difference. Same speed,
Same database size if the database contain only ASCII characters.
Reviewed by: ache
faster IO due mmap(2) [-m | -s]
better error check for damaged databases
support for databases in network byte order (SunOS/sparc)
optional case insensitve search [-i]
optional multiple databases
optional multiple pattern
new enviroment variable LOCATE_PATH for database(s)
[-S] print some statistic about the database
[-l number] limit output to number file names
[-c] suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching file names
Bigram does not remove newline at end of filename. This
break particulary the bigram algorithm and /var/db/locate.database
grow up 15 %.
Bigram does not check for characters outside 32-127.
The bigram output is silly and need ~1/2 CPU time of
database rebuilding.
old:
locate.bigram < $filelist | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this can easy made bigram
new:
bigram < $filelist | sort -nr
code
Code does not check for char 31.
Use a lookup array instead a function. 3 x faster.
updatedb
rewritten
sync with bigram changes
read config file /etc/locate.rc if exists
submitted by: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
concatdb - concatenate locate databases
mklocatedb - build locate database
