Is there a simple way to write a kind of wrapper script or patch for updatedb (or locate) such that locate can find user defined extended attributes (tags) (suppose in an ext3 filesystem, mounted with user_xattr option), too?
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as locate is quite specialize to search a list of pathnames, what you'd want would be a new program that like updatedb scans the file system and collects (pathname, xattr, value) and then provides a way like locate to search this database by xattr and value from which it returns pathnames
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