Re: Strange message from updatedb

["Cary Jamison" <Cary_Jamison at Symantec dot com>]

Phil Edwards wrote:
> I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces
> show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other
> punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname lists) are used.
> I've not changed my opinion that updatedb is behind the times and is
> needlessly complicating things for admins, but I also don't expect
> that opinion to change anybody else's mind -- this bug has been
> reported before, against other distros, and gets rejected because "you
> shouldn't use spaces in filenames under Linux," how quaint.

This opinion by Linux users has to change if they want Linux to become a 
more mainstream os.  Everyday users are going to use spaces in filenames 
through the Linux desktop, just as it has become more common on the Windows 
desktop.


<$.02

Cary




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