Re: Patches to findutils 4.9.0-1's updatedb to do locking, allow filenames with spaces & progress monitoring, exclude /dev on Cygwin, etc.

2022-02-27 Thread Dan Harkless
On 2/27/2022 3:54 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 2/24/22 17:32, Dan Harkless wrote: I'm finally getting around to sending in a patch (to bug-findutils and the Cygwin list, to which I'm currently subscribed) to address these issues, along with some others, a few of which represent small changes i

Re: Patches to findutils 4.9.0-1's updatedb to do locking, allow filenames with spaces & progress monitoring, exclude /dev on Cygwin, etc.

2022-02-27 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 2/24/22 17:32, Dan Harkless wrote: > I'm finally getting around to sending in a patch (to bug-findutils and > the Cygwin list, to which I'm currently subscribed) to address these > issues, along with some others, a few of which represent small changes > in behavior: Thanks for the patch ...

Patches to findutils 4.9.0-1's updatedb to do locking, allow filenames with spaces & progress monitoring, exclude /dev on Cygwin, etc.

2022-02-24 Thread Dan Harkless
Howdy.  I posted last August to the Cygwin list about some problems I was having with the updatedb script, including that it was taking more than 24 hours to complete, and then colliding with the next cron run, and that I had no way to monitor progress (short of using Sysinternals Process Explo