Tommy Nordgren wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Michael Ash wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Tommy Nordgren >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Use NSTask with the command line find -x / -name '*.app' >>> Do this on a separate thread, and cache the result. >> >> I highly recommend against this approach. One problem is that it will >> fail badly if any of the returned paths contain the \n character, > Not true. With the given command line, find will return absolute paths. > So this anomaly is easily detected when parsing find output >>
Don't do find /, please! It could end up looking through every directory entry on a remote petabyte filesystem. Even if you restrict it to "local" storage, you could be going to the network for iSCSI devices, and if you avoid that, some people have multi-terabyte filesystems with a lot of directory entries, they will be disappointed in any software that does a find /. Peter _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
