From 5bb9ff1ee56d2b5e75e01a7f066d8b0cec84ec02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: V3n3RiX Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:27:17 +0000 Subject: gentoo resync : 20.03.2021 --- sys-apps/plocate/metadata.xml | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 sys-apps/plocate/metadata.xml (limited to 'sys-apps/plocate/metadata.xml') diff --git a/sys-apps/plocate/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/plocate/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ffe1b7daa0ad --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-apps/plocate/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ + + + + + arsen@aarsen.me + Arsen Arsenović + + + jeffrey@icurse.nl + Jeffrey Lin + + + sam@gentoo.org + Sam James + + + proxy-maint@gentoo.org + Proxy Maintainers + + + Enable efficient I/O via sys-libs/liburing. + + + plocate works by creating an inverted index over trigrams (combinations of + three bytes) in the search strings, which allows it to rapidly narrow down the + set of candidates to a very small list, instead of linearly scanning through + every entry. It does nearly all I/O asynchronously using io_uring if available + (Linux 5.1+), which reduces the impact of seek latency on systems without SSDs. + Like mlocate and slocate, the returned file set is user-dependent, ie. a user + will only see a file if find(1) would list it (all directories from the root + have +rx permissions). + + -- cgit v1.2.3