Re: bin/45130: /etc/locate.conf cannot deal with pathnames containing spaces

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45130; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/45130: /etc/locate.conf cannot deal with pathnames containing 
spaces
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:59:12 +0100

 On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 05:05:00AM +0000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
 > >Number:         45130
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       /etc/locate.conf cannot deal with pathnames containing 
 > >spaces
 ...
 >      it seems locate.updatedb cannot be told to ignore files or
 >      directories which have whitespace in their pathnames, but such
 >      names are becoming increasingly common on shared file stores,
 >      and even on native systems
 
 If might be possible to do a simpler fix by removing 'space' from IFS.
 
        David
 
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