On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, James Youngman wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Miloslav Trma? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> It might make sense to automatically look for a database on every >>> mounted file system (assuming a specific relative path). I don't know >>> whether it should be the default. >> >> It probably should not, I would guess. Most people for now would not >> be using a database of this type (since it is useful mainly for people >> using clusters of machines), and requiring locate to look for such >> databases would mean that locate would always fail on clients of >> unresponsive NFS servers. > > It could actually be worse, causing highly unpleasant timeouts. > I'd say definitely not.
Yes. When I wrote "fail" I meant "hang forever". See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?12044 James.
