linux-kernel - Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

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Message-Id: <20070727121930.30779cad.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:19:30 -0700
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	frank@...gswood-consulting.co.uk, andi@...stfloor.org,
	nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, ray-lk@...rabbit.org,
	jesper.juhl@...il.com, ck@....kolivas.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans
 for 2.6.23]

Al Viro wrote:
> BTW, I really wonder how much pain could be avoided if updatedb recorded
> mtime of directories and checked it.

Someone mentioned a variant of slocate above that they called mlocate,
and that Red Hat ships, that seems to do this (if I understand you and
what mlocate does correctly.)

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