URL:
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Summary: feature request: storing relative pathnames in
locate databases
Project: findutils
Submitted by: peb
Submitted on: Monday 04/02/2007 at 08:06
Category: locate
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.2.30
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
When some (part of a) filesystem is present on an nfs server under one path
and mounted on nfs client(s) under different path(s), it would be desirable
to store only relative pathnames in a locate database for that filesystem and
have the locate program prepend the applicable path prefix.
Attached are:
relpath.txt: short writeup of the design and implementation.
The present design would honor all objections raised by Bruno Haible against
an earlier proposal.
patch-02-relpath-locate: patches for locate.c
patch-03-relpath-frcode: patches for frcode.c
patch-04-relpath-updatedb: patches for updatedb
patch-05-relpath-testcase: testcase for the new feature.
These four patches complete the implementation with these two exceptions:
(1) Usage message in frcode.c (requires translation)
(2) Updated documentation (man and info). If the patches mentioned above are
accepted (possibly in modified form) I would be willing to provide the
corresponding documentation patches.
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File Attachments:
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Date: Monday 04/02/2007 at 08:06 Name: relpath.txt Size: 3kB By: peb
sketch of design and implementation for locate databases with relative
pathnames
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=12373>
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Date: Monday 04/02/2007 at 08:06 Name: patch-02-relpath-locate Size: 4kB
By: peb
sketch of design and implementation for locate databases with relative
pathnames
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=12374>
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Date: Monday 04/02/2007 at 08:06 Name: patch-03-relpath-frcode Size: 2kB
By: peb
sketch of design and implementation for locate databases with relative
pathnames
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=12375>
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Date: Monday 04/02/2007 at 08:06 Name: patch-04-relpath-updatedb Size: 3kB
By: peb
sketch of design and implementation for locate databases with relative
pathnames
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=12376>
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