Okay, for a vanilla cygwin user, is there anything *I* should be doing, or just ignore it and wait for a patch.
Thanks for helping. I use find all the time .. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:19 AM Cc: Furash Gary; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange message from updatedb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Phil Edwards on 2/27/2007 11:50 AM: > On 2/27/07, Furash Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information > > Quotes and backslashes aren't going to solve the problem, I think. I > looked at updatedb (it's a shell script), and the --prunepaths > argument is passed through a sed script which replaces spaces in order > to turn it all into a regexp. There's no way of telling sed to avoid > some spaces and translate others. I've reported this upstream. I also agree with Enrico's suggestion of using . instead of a quoted space, since that is the regex character that will match a space: updatedb --prunepaths='/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS /cygdrive/e /cygdrive/d /cygdrive/z cygdrive/y /proc /cygdrive/c/System.Volume.Information /usr /var /cygdrive/c/Documents.and.Settings/furashg/Local.Settings/Temporary.Inte rnet.Files /usr/bin /cygdrive/c/System.Volume.Information /c/cygwin' > > You used to be able to set the internal PRUNEREGEX variable directly, > in a .conf file, but apparently that file is only used under Linux > versions of updatedb, or something. Perhaps that was in distro-modified versions. I just included updatedb as it is upstream, plus a single patch to recognize that on cygwin, the filesystem recognition code doesn't work very well. > > Most lists of dirs are passed around with colon (or some such) > separators to avoid just such problems with paths containing > whitespace. updatedb is still living in the 80's. > I agree that directory name lists should look like a PATH, and not be space separated, but we will see what the upstream maintainer thinks. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF5YFe84KuGfSFAYARAiSNAJ4noRa0o7zVr2xZmqQFmUd908zirwCfaqxo +grDYlWCZCLjEjB+IkXHQ+Q= =QZKC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
