On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 02:32:19PM -0400, Jim Spath wrote:
> The classic man page for "locate" includes this reference:
> Woods, James A., "Finding Files Fast", ;login, 8:1, pp. 8-10, 1983.
>
> This 3 page paper (or 3 page portion of a larger publication) can be
> found in a scanned PDF
While running tests on NetBSD 10 and finding a service database
anomaly, I looked at files under /var/db/ and learned the"locate"
database predates entries in the file magic list. The file shows only
as "data."
The classic man page for "locate" includes this reference:
Woods, James A., "Findi