Re: [dev] Patch for dmenu_path - pass -maxdepth 1 to find(1)

Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com> writes:

> Hey,
>
> On 6 June 2011 22:10, Troels Henriksen <athas_AT_sigkill.dk> wrote:
>> If . is part of your PATH (leaving aside questions of whether this is a
>> good idea), dmenu_path can be very slow, as it searches the entire tree
>> from the working directory for binaries, despite the fact that only
>> those immediately in the directory matter.  The following patch passes
>> -maxdepth 1 to the find(1) invocations, such that the search is no
>> deeper than actually needed to reflect the state of the PATH.
>
> Unfortunately the -maxdepth is unportable, so it isn't a possible
> solution for mainline. It is a problem though, although . in $PATH
> *is* completely broken. A solution, I suppose, could be to bundle
> lsx(1) and patch dmenu_path accordingly... Not sure how I feel about
> that. But does lsx even have a repo of its own?

You can use -prume to simulate -maxdepth 1.

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