From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: Aruna Hewapathirane <aruna.hewapathirane@gmail.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Issue
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:09:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31879.1624576151@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSeFg8w-h9m=Bw_sjoLM=BNNi8hhLkg8mDV0Pjtvo9qK5s7SA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:19:04 -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane said:
> Could well be ... but 'locate' shows me this:
>
> aruna@debian:~$ locate Makefile.normal
> /usr/src/open-vm-tools-9.4.6/vmci/Makefile.normal
> /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/9.4.6/build/vmci/Makefile.normal
Note that 'locate' doesn't actually walk through the file system, it greps
through a file created by 'updatedb' which usually gets run from a crontab
entry. As a result, 'locate' can report the existence of files that have actually
been removed after the last updatedb run.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-24 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-23 2:48 Kernel Compile Issue Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-06-24 10:21 ` Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen
2021-06-24 13:35 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-06-24 16:13 ` Cindy Sue Causey
2021-06-24 17:56 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-06-24 17:29 ` Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen
2021-06-24 18:19 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-06-24 23:09 ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]
2021-06-24 23:36 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-06-25 0:51 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-06-25 20:05 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-06-26 6:39 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-06-28 11:58 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-06-29 9:25 ` Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen
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