Re: Patches to findutils 4.9.0-1's updatedb to do locking, allow filenames with spaces & progress monitoring, exclude /dev on Cygwin, etc.

On 2022-02-24 Dan Harkless 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 (sh

Patches to findutils 4.9.0-1's updatedb to do locking, allow filenames with spaces & progress monitoring, exclude /dev on Cygwin, etc.

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 Explo