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Summary: updatedb generates an invalid database of (1) one
filename (=concatenation of all filenames on the fs)
Project: findutils
Submitted by: davy_gravy
Submitted on: Sunday 07/01/2007 at 14:21
Category: updatedb
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: David Purdy
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
At first I thought '''locate''' was broken...
locate bob
spews a single, very long filename(=concatenation of all filenames present on
the scanned filesystem).
locate -S seems to show the problem:
locate -S
Database /var/locatedb is in the LOCATE02 format.
Locate database size: 2037547 bytes
Filenames: 1 with a cumulative length of 2037535 bytes
of which 1 contain whitespace,
1 contain newline characters,
and 1 contain characters with the high bit set.
Compression ratio -0.00%
I have noticed that, on the other hand, '''updatedb --old-format''' does
generate a valid database. Using '''locate''' after the old-format updatedb
does return valid results.
The compilation was done on in the OpenEmbedded/Bitbake environment, target
platform is a PPC603 NAS device.
I have tried 4.2.29 and 4.2.31 - both exhibit the same problem.
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