Circa Oct 17 2007, Stefan Esser wrote: > Yes, I considered this. In fact, if there is consensus that FAT should > be excluded, I'd add another category to the configuration parameters > of the locate.updatedb script. Currently there is: > > $SEARCHPATHS (start points for the directory scan) > $PRUNEPATHS (sub-trees to exclude from scanning) > > $FILESYSTEMS (file system types to include) > > and we could add: > > $PRUNEFS (file system types to exclude) > > with the latter overriding $FILESYSTEMS ... > > As you may know, the new default for $FILESYSTEMS is all local, > non-synthetic, non-loopback, principally writable file system types > (which include msdosfs). The $PRUNEFS could be used to drop a few > that could be scanned, but where it is still not desirable.
Sounds pretty flexible to me. While adding new config knobs is generally a thing to avoid, in this case they seem pretty orthogonal to each other. ./danfe _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
