tal@frank.Philips.Com (Tal Barnea) (03/13/90)
On the latest version of Risc Ultrix (UWS 2.2), I noticed the existence of the /usr/lib/find directory with the updatedb script and the other two binaries needed to implement fast find. In trying to get the thing going I found out that: 1. The script does not execute properly (It does some work and pipes it into bigram and into code, which do not like what they are fed). 2. Even if it did execute properly, find does not really care if the find.codes file exist. In other words it seems that the fast find option has not been implemented. Anybody know what the story is? Why was /usr/lib/find created (with a script that does not work) if find does not use it anyhow? Or am I missing something? (I could not find any relevant documentation). Thanks in advance! --tal Tal Barnea tal@philabs.philips.com Philips Laboratories - or - (914) 945-6275 {uunet|ihnp4|decvax}!philabs!tal
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (03/14/90)
In article <86265@philabs.Philips.Com> tal@frank.Philips.Com (Tal Barnea) writes: > On the latest version of Risc Ultrix (UWS 2.2), I noticed the existence of > the /usr/lib/find directory with the updatedb script and the other > two binaries needed to implement fast find. In trying to get the thing > going I found out that: > > Anybody know what the story is? Why was /usr/lib/find created (with > a script that does not work) if find does not use it anyhow? > Or am I missing something? (I could not find any relevant documentation). Rumor has it that it's just plain broken. This was reported to DEC at the Ultrix BOF at Usenix, I don't know if anyone has SPR'd it... Note that this *is* on a RISC system and the DEC supplied VAX executables found in /usr/lib/find are of relativly little use in this environment... # file /usr/lib/find/* /usr/lib/find/bigram: VAX demand paged pure executable not stripped /usr/lib/find/code: VAX demand paged pure executable not stripped /usr/lib/find/updatedb: /bin/csh script -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)