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,

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