Laurent Schneider

updatedb and locate are parts of the findutils package, which exists since a long time on most unix / linux flavors.

Something I never get worked is to search for files on network drives with Cygwin, I always got :

find: /cygdrive/y/Favorites/Links/del changed during execution of find (old inode number -474324984, new inode number -44545478
4, filesystem type is system) [ref 1114]
find: /cygdrive/y/Favorites/Links/del changed during execution of find (old inode number -513303800, new inode number -47432498
4, filesystem type is system) [ref 1114]

which is because the file system is mounted and unmounted on demand and get new inodes.

So I wrote a hack in /usr/bin/updatedb

# $find $NETPATHS $FINDOPTIONS …
# lschnei2
(
for d in c: y:
do
cd $d
/cygdrive/c/OS/system32/attrib /s
done
) |
sed ’s,………..\(.\):,/cygdrive/\1,;y,\\,/,’ |
tr ‘\r’ ‘\0′ | tr -d ‘\n’

Then I can search efficiently

$ time updatedb

real 0m0.261s
user 0m0.265s
sys 0m0.015s