In article <200003071430.XAA01792@srapc342.sra.co.jp>
soda@sra.co.jp writes:

> > So, there are many aspects. :-(
> 
> In my system, MFS /tmp (32MB) cannot hold temporary files for locate
> database, but /var/tmp (150MB) can.

The temporary storage is used by sort(1), which sorts the entries
of each directories.
If the find(1) could sort dir entries (as FreeBSD's; see patch below)
and if the update script used the funnction, such are large temporary
area would not be required.

By the way, does anyone have ideas to make locate(1) 8-bit through?
Current implementation is not even 7-bit through....
-- 
ITOH, Yasufumi <itohy@netbsd.org>


diff -uF^[a-zA-Z_][a-z 	A-Z0-9_]*(.*[^;]$ usr.bin/find/main.c.orig usr.bin/find/main.c
--- usr.bin/find/main.c.orig	Tue Jun 29 09:06:21 1999
+++ usr.bin/find/main.c	Fri Oct 15 13:36:00 1999
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ __RCSID("$NetBSD: main.c,v 1.11 1999/04/
 int isdeprecated;		/* using deprecated syntax */
 int isdepth;			/* do directories on post-order visit */
 int isoutput;			/* user specified output operator */
+int issort;			/* sort directory entries */
 int isxargs;			/* don't permit xargs delimiting chars */
 
 int main __P((int, char **));
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ main(argc, argv)
 	p = start = alloca(argc * sizeof (char *));
 
 	ftsoptions = FTS_NOSTAT | FTS_PHYSICAL;
-	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "HLPXdf:hx")) != EOF)
+	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "HLPXdf:hsx")) != EOF)
 		switch(ch) {
 		case 'H':
 			ftsoptions |= FTS_COMFOLLOW;
@@ -115,6 +116,9 @@ main(argc, argv)
 			ftsoptions &= ~FTS_PHYSICAL;
 			ftsoptions |= FTS_LOGICAL;
 			break;
+		case 's':
+			issort = 1;
+			break;
 		case 'x':
 			ftsoptions |= FTS_XDEV;
 			break;
@@ -123,7 +127,7 @@ main(argc, argv)
 			break;
 		}
 
-	argc -= optind;	
+	argc -= optind;
 	argv += optind;
 
 	/*
diff -uF^[a-zA-Z_][a-z 	A-Z0-9_]*(.*[^;]$ usr.bin/find/find.c.orig usr.bin/find/find.c
--- usr.bin/find/find.c.orig	Sun Feb 22 21:13:10 1998
+++ usr.bin/find/find.c	Mon Oct 11 13:50:39 1999
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ __RCSID("$NetBSD: find.c,v 1.11 1998/02/
 
 #include "find.h"
 
+static int ftscompare __P((const FTSENT **, const FTSENT **));
+
 /*
  * find_formplan --
  *	process the command line and create a "plan" corresponding to the
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ find_formplan(argv)
 			tail = new;
 		}
 	}
-    
+
 	/*
 	 * if the user didn't specify one of -print, -ok or -exec, then -print
 	 * is assumed so we bracket the current expression with parens, if
@@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ find_formplan(argv)
 			tail = new;
 		}
 	}
-    
+
 	/*
 	 * the command line has been completely processed into a search plan
 	 * except for the (, ), !, and -o operators.  Rearrange the plan so
@@ -145,7 +147,14 @@ find_formplan(argv)
 	plan = or_squish(plan);			/* -o's */
 	return (plan);
 }
- 
+
+static int
+ftscompare(e1, e2)
+	const FTSENT **e1, **e2;
+{
+	return strcmp((*e1)->fts_name, (*e2)->fts_name);
+}
+
 FTS *tree;			/* pointer to top of FTS hierarchy */
 
 /*
@@ -161,8 +170,8 @@ find_execute(plan, paths)
 	register FTSENT *entry;
 	PLAN *p;
 	int rval;
-    
-	if (!(tree = fts_open(paths, ftsoptions, NULL)))
+
+	if (!(tree = fts_open(paths, ftsoptions, issort ? ftscompare : NULL)))
 		err(1, "ftsopen");
 
 	for (rval = 0; (entry = fts_read(tree)) != NULL; ) {
@@ -195,7 +204,7 @@ find_execute(plan, paths)
 			rval = 1;
 			continue;
 		}
-		 
+
 		/*
 		 * Call all the functions in the execution plan until one is
 		 * false or all have been executed.  This is where we do all
diff -u usr.bin/find/extern.h.orig usr.bin/find/extern.h
--- usr.bin/find/extern.h.orig	Wed Jul 21 10:22:47 1999
+++ usr.bin/find/extern.h	Mon Oct 11 13:45:20 1999
@@ -87,4 +87,4 @@
 PLAN	*c_or __P((char ***, int));
 PLAN	*c_null __P((char ***, int));
 
-extern int ftsoptions, isdeprecated, isdepth, isoutput, isxargs;
+extern int ftsoptions, isdeprecated, isdepth, isoutput, issort, isxargs;