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

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

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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