On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:54:32AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > Everything except root is a passive translator. I wouldn't want the M$ > > stuff in my locate database ... and I'm not sure I want Linux things > > in there, but I certainly want the /home tree. > > I think you are missing something (or maybe I am wrong). If updatedb does > a readdir on / then the translator on home is going to be started.
Ah, no. But almost. A readdir is just not enough, as it is only reading the directory content. You have to stat it at least. > But everything is always mounted in the Unix sense. They may be > passive, however, they are ``mounted.'' It might be useful to avoid the word mounting alltogether, to avoid confusion. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
