Re: findutils -- feature request for database with relative pathnames

[James Youngman]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, James Youngman wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Miloslav Trma? <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> It might make sense to automatically look for a database on every
>>> mounted file system (assuming a specific relative path).  I don't know
>>> whether it should be the default.
>>
>> It probably should not, I would guess.  Most people for now would not
>> be using a database of this type (since it is useful mainly for people
>> using clusters of machines), and requiring locate to look for such
>> databases would mean that locate would always fail on clients of
>> unresponsive NFS servers.
>
> It could actually be worse, causing highly unpleasant timeouts.
> I'd say definitely not.

Yes.   When I wrote "fail" I meant "hang forever".

See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?12044

James.