On 17/10/2009, at 16:15, Douglas Alan wrote: > I'm not sure where the right place to report fink package bugs is, > so I'll > do so here: > > The "findutils" package adds an anacron job that runs a "find" over > all your > filesystems in the wee hours of the morning in order to build the > database > for "locate". Unfortunately, if you happen to have a Time Machine disk > mounted, it seems that the "find" job will likely crash your Mac. > > I believe the reason for this is that Time Machine makes use of an > interesting HFS+ capability wherein you can make hard links to > directories. > I'm guessing that Time Machine's extensive use of this feature > causes "find" > to rampantly eat up some sort of system resource, which when exhausted > causes the system to crash.
Hello, Douglas. This looks like an upstream (GNU) bug. Would you please report it to them? Cheers, -- monipol http://finkers.wordpress.com Submitting a Fink bug report? Read this: http://www.finkproject.org/doc/netiquette/index.php http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/bug-reports/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
