faster IO due mmap(2) [-m | -s]
better error check for damaged databases
support for databases in network byte order (SunOS/sparc)
optional case insensitve search [-i]
optional multiple databases
optional multiple pattern
new enviroment variable LOCATE_PATH for database(s)
[-S] print some statistic about the database
[-l number] limit output to number file names
[-c] suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching file names
Documented PWD. MACHINE and MAKEOBJDIR are are still undocumented
except in main.c. I will be changing MAKEOBJDIR back to its old
behaviour so that the comment in main.c actually applies.
Removed irrelevant misformatted text about make's name being argv[0].
- timeval in select loop was depending on not having the remaining time
returned from select(), causing a busy spin on an implementation that
does implement it.
- the err() usage was pretty bogus, some of the error messages had
strerror attached manually and then reattached by err().
2. Add a -l flag for symlinking to rather than copying file:/path style URLs.
3. Add a -T flag for setting the timeout interval (overrides FTP_TIMEOUT if set)
hline() to draw the window split rather than fudging it with dashes.
This causes the line to be drawn in line-draw characters if the terminal
description has them.
Suggested by: ache
- use termios, not sgtty
- dont use _putchar(), that was a BSD-curses specific feature not in
other curses packages (such as ncurses)
- use sigaction, not sigvec while I'm there
- box() does different things under sysv/ncurses on 1-line high windows,
and BSD-curses doesn't have hline(), so do it by adding characters
instead. That works on both styles of curses.
Bigram does not remove newline at end of filename. This
break particulary the bigram algorithm and /var/db/locate.database
grow up 15 %.
Bigram does not check for characters outside 32-127.
The bigram output is silly and need ~1/2 CPU time of
database rebuilding.
old:
locate.bigram < $filelist | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this can easy made bigram
new:
bigram < $filelist | sort -nr
code
Code does not check for char 31.
Use a lookup array instead a function. 3 x faster.
updatedb
rewritten
sync with bigram changes
read config file /etc/locate.rc if exists
submitted by: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
concatdb - concatenate locate databases
mklocatedb - build locate database
