On 8/18/07, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/18/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 1) I don't see why the combination "updatedb/slocate" should care
> > about file sizes, since it is only asked to create and search a list
> > of file names.
>
> It has to pay attention to permissions, too. Maybe there's something
> permission-related about file sizes?
All files under consideration are owned by me, with permissions 664 (rw-rw-r--)
A quick check shows that there are no files in the directory
/data1/Torrents that are owned by anyone else.
If it were a permissions problem, then root would be able to run
slocate and see the files. This doesn't happen either.
The only way that file sizes and permissions could interact would be a
programming bug. Which there probably is one of lurking somewhere.
Maybe having to do with signed integers.
Probably in the usage of the stat(2) system call.
carl
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