ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> 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.

Mmmm, I like it, go for it :)
  
> By the way, does anyone have ideas to make locate(1) 8-bit through?
> Current implementation is not even 7-bit through....

What do you exactly mean ? updatedb.csh surely filters all characters >
128,
but it doesn't make it 7bit unsafe.

Jaromir