From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l04HNL5e013468 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:23:21 -0500 Received: from web36612.mail.mud.yahoo.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id l04HO6VJ028842 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:24:07 GMT Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:24:00 -0800 (PST) From: Casey Schaufler Reply-To: casey@schaufler-ca.com Subject: Re: Latest diffs To: russell@coker.com.au Cc: SE Linux In-Reply-To: <200701050407.14369.russell@coker.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <158008.45123.qm@web36612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov --- Russell Coker wrote: > Could we have a version of locate that is a little > slower than usual and which > just calls find without telling the user? :-# One of the first things I noticed as an important difference between Unix and Linux is how much faster (the second) find / is on Linux than it is on Unix. I say go for it. As mentioned before, locate is a holdover from the days when a MIPS was a lot of compute power and disc platters were a foot across. Casey Schaufler casey@schaufler-ca.com -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.