Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:

>
> Ack to all. Final patch sent for approval:
>
> diff --git a/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.c b/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.c
> index b0faefb..95b3fed 100644
> --- a/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.c
> +++ b/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.c
> @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ search_mmap(db, s)
> 		err(1, "`%s'", db);
> 	len = sb.st_size;
> 	if (len < (2*NBG))
> -		errx(1, "database too small: %s", db);
> +		errx(1, "database too small: %s\nRun /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb", db);

That looks longer than 80 characters, a limit given implicitly in style.9.

-Ben


>
> 	if ((p = mmap((caddr_t)0, (size_t)len,
> 		      PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED,
>
> -- 
> Eitan Adler
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