Follow-up Comment #10, bug #23742 (project findutils): In an email which he didn't send using the bugtracker :-), Eric wrote: > I've uploaded a new build of findutils for cygwin 1.5.x (use cygwin's > setup.exe to install it), which incorporates my same workarounds for > getmntent as I used in 'df -T'. That means that -printf "%F" now shows > 'system,remote' or 'user,remote' for remote drives, so updatedb has also > been patched to add these to its default PRUNEFS. The patch should not be > floated upstream, since cygwin 1.7.0 does not need it (since getmntent > gives saner filesystem names).
I tested the new version[1], and when I run the command "updatedb", it no longer tries to index network shares. I thank you all for kindly maintaining findutils, and Eric, thanks for this fix. ^ [1]. ftp://ftp.cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/release/findutils/findutils-4.4.0-3.tar.bz2 _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23742> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
