Re: Finding other apps' paths - deterministically!
Re: Finding other apps' paths - deterministically!
- Subject: Re: Finding other apps' paths - deterministically!
- From: Peter O'Gorman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:25:35 -0500
Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Tommy Nordgren wrote:
>> On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Tommy Nordgren
>>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Use NSTask with the command line find -x / -name '*.app'
Dunno how I missed the -x, does not matter though, find -x / on a large
filesystem with many files will take too long.
Peter
>>>> Do this on a separate thread, and cache the result.
>>> I highly recommend against this approach. One problem is that it will
>>> fail badly if any of the returned paths contain the \n character,
>> Not true. With the given command line, find will return absolute paths.
>> So this anomaly is easily detected when parsing find output
>
> Don't do find /, please! It could end up looking through every directory
> entry on a remote petabyte filesystem. Even if you restrict it to
> "local" storage, you could be going to the network for iSCSI devices,
> and if you avoid that, some people have multi-terabyte filesystems with
> a lot of directory entries, they will be disappointed in any software
> that does a find /.
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