Hello,
I upgraded my cygwin today from 1.5.19-4 to 1.5.20-1 (along with other
various packages to their current versions). I ran updatedb, and
instead of it taking less than a few minutes, the prompt hadn't returned after
several minutes. I fired up procexp.exe (from
sysinternals.com) and saw that the find.exe process was opening several
registry keys in HKCR. This process was taking between 20-45% of my
cpu as well. I did a quick test of the following command:
/usr/bin/find / \( -fstype proc \) -prune -o -print0
Sure enough, the find command happily started traversing the /proc registry
keys. I reverted the cygwin base (keeping everything else
installed as is, although I don't know if there are any dependencies that might
be reverted automatically) back to 1.5.19-4, and did the
same test, and find exited properly before descending into /proc as expected.
I'm currently using 1.5.19-4 again. :(
As far as I know the syntax for the find command should work as above.
(I actually made a copy of the updatedb script and changed it to
echo the find command it was using to make sure.) Anyway, I saw another post
to this list with the subject "Updatedb does not finish",
however I didn't see any replies, or updates, and just thought I'd mail the
list in case anyone is interested, or has any other insights.
Thanks.
-Victor
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