Re: [PATCH] updatedb: run in the C locale, don't do case-folding.

2016-01-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/09/2016 02:18 PM, James Youngman wrote: > * locate/updatedb.sh: Set LC_ALL to C to avoid unexpected character > encodings in path names causing sort to fail (idea from Clarence > Risher). Don't do case-folding, since the character set in now C, > which is likely inconsistent with the user's

Re: [PATCH] updatedb: Remove support for the old pre-4.0 database format.

2016-01-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/09/2016 03:26 PM, James Youngman wrote: > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline > -*- (allout) > > ** Changes to locate / updatedb > > +Support for generating old-format databases (with updatedb > +--old-format or updatedb --dbformat=

Re: [bug #46815] problem when testing file size

2016-01-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 10. Januar 2016, 22:43:00 CET schrieb James Youngman: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Bernhard Voelker > wrote: > > On 01/09/2016 04:41 PM, James Youngman wrote: > >> Let's re-open the discussion about what to call the "sane" alternative to > >> -size, and implement it this time. >

Re: [bug #46815] problem when testing file size

2016-01-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 11. Januar 2016, 02:29:24 CET schrieb Bernhard Voelker: > On 01/11/2016 12:43 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > >> Suppose someone wants to find files smaller than 20MiB. Are you sure > >> that the best answer we should give them is that they should use > >> "find -size -20971520c"? > > Altho