On 2005-11-30 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The updatedb script seems to be pretty complex and messy. In addition
> there are some problems with it. For example, if find returns a
> nonzero result it carries on regardless, I think.
That is one thing, as it is diffcult to make
foo | bar | blah | fasel | frobnicate
abort if *any* commad in the pipe produces an error. Other issues are
that <Ctrl-C> does not work (because of trap) and that in
find | sort | datahandling | writeupdatedb
only writeupdatedb should run as superuser.
[snip, no comments on that]
cu andreas
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