Le 31 juil. 2013 à 18:52, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> a écrit :

> 
> On 2013 Jul 31, at 08:45, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not 
>> indexed by Spotlight?  Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager 
>> directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources 
>> to search that way.
> 
> Several years ago I looked into this and concluded that the fastest, 
> *reliable* file search on Mac OS X was still the ancient 
> PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync().  Does anyone know a more 
> modern API which can beat these?

I don't know about modern API, but I know about low level way to query the FS: 
searchfs(3)

I think you can achieve performances equivalent to what you get using 
PBCatalogSearchSync using this function.


-- Jean-Daniel





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