From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: locate.exe
Date: 11 Apr 2001 12:13:46 GMT
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Daniel Taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr> wrote:
>  Finally, I find out thet locate.exe works perfectly... when the
> database is not too big. In fact, when I run

> updatedb c:/     (where c: is a 34 Gigabyte disk with a lot of files)

> then locate crashes with a page fault. But, when I run updatedb on a
> limited number of files, it runs OK. I shall look whether I'm able to
> correct that.

From reading the gnu.utils.bug newsgroup, I seem to remember a bug in
locate having been noticed by others, too. It occurs with certain very
long paths, i.e. it's not the total size of the locatedb, but rather the
length of a single full pathname contained in it. To check, try

	locate "*"

this output all files in the locatedb. It should crash right at the offending
file, then.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.