rlocate

File locator daemon written in Rust

All of this is very WIP, Database path is hardcoded to ./rlocate-names.db and ./rlocate-meta.db

Very little effort was spent on optimization

Build instructions & Usage

# Clone
git clone git@github.com:Wazzaps/rlocate.git

# Build (I assume Rust is installed)
cargo build --release

# Create DB and spawn daemon
mkdir index_dir && cd index_dir
../target/release/updatedb /usr
../target/release/located &

# Usage
../target/release/locate Head
../target/release/locate gnome
../target/release/locate libc.so

(Very rough) Benchmarks

	rlocate	GNU mlocate
index of my `/usr`	`./updatedb /usr` - 4.3 sec	`updatedb -U /usr -o mlocate.db` - 3 sec
search of `Head`	`./locate Head` - 10ms	`locate -d ./mlocate.db Head` - 248 ms
search of `Head` (10 results)	`./locate Head \| head` - 2ms	`locate -d ./mlocate.db Head \| head` - 195 ms
background RAM usage	9.4 MiB	0 MiB
db size	14.35 MiB	13.47 MiB

Critical Missing Features

Don't go into /sys, /proc, etc. when indexing
- Don't travel into mount points
- Specify multiple roots (for indexing external drives)
Expose case insensitivity as flag
Don't stall on greedy regex (i.e. .*), cap matches to PATH_MAX
Specify DB path

Nice to have features

Mmap the metadata db too
Send messages / panics back to client
Describe regex support in --help