Re: Search options
Re: Search options
- Subject: Re: Search options
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:29:34 -0500
On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
> On 2013 Jul 31, at 08:45, email@hidden wrote:
>
>> what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not indexed by Spotlight? Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources to search that way.
>
> Several years ago I looked into this and concluded that the fastest, *reliable* file search on Mac OS X was still the ancient PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync(). Does anyone know a more modern API which can beat these?
I haven't worked with it, but I think that the searchfs() system call is what underlies those routines at the BSD/POSIX layer.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/searchfs.2.html
Regards,
Ken
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