On 2022-02-24 Dan Harkless <cygwin-lis...@harkless.org> wrote: > 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 Explorer's > very awkward GUI for this).
> 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: [...] Good morning, at first glance you seem have missed documenting a major change: The script does not use a NUL-separated list (find -print0 | \ sort -z | frcode -0) anymore and will therefore stop handling filenames with newlines correctly. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'