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

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

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

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/45130: /etc/locate.conf cannot deal with pathnames
 containing spaces
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:29:49 +0200

 >      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
 
 Thanks for the patch.  However, it has another problem: Files or
 directories that have quotation marks in their names cannot be
 specified.
 
 I think that we should allow multiple arguments, as it says in
 the man page, but allow shell-style quoting within the arguments,
 like this:
 
 #
 #       testing locate.updatedb
 #
 ignore  /home/oldfiler/bogus\ stuff
 ignore  /home/oldfiler/"not a real name"
 ignorecontents  "/Volumes/Macintosh HD Part 2/backups"
 ignorecontents  '/Volumes/Macintosh HD Part 2/also ignore'