On 8/18/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You had said locate "is only asked to create and search a list of file names". But it also looks at permissions, and that may be the hook into why file size is affecting it. What I mean is that if there's something related about sizes and permissions (I can't think of what it would be) then there would be some place in the code that locate is looking at file sizes. There could be a bug or a flaw in that piece of code. locate also looks at filesystem types, but that's a little more of a stretch. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
