Re: Glob fix in locate.c

[Russell Shaw]

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-06-12 Russell Shaw <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I found that locate tries to match against full path
> > names.
>
> This is a feature, not a bug.

Why? How is locate usually used? Isn't the purpose of locate
for finding known file-name patterns that have an unknown path?

> > This patch makes it match against the path with
> > leading directories removed. 
>
> [...]
>
> A proper patch would need to make this behavior changeable with a
> commandline option.
>        cu and- this just my personal opinion -dreas