updatedb is in section 8, not 1.

[plocate] / conf.cpp

diff --git a/conf.cpp b/conf.cpp
index a8ec972b5c4a750eaf07d37064b61fa2462ad522..695af67823212b0a0088488ac94f74f7de05ef5a 100644 (file)
--- a/conf.cpp
+++ b/conf.cpp
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static void
 help(void)
 {
        printf(_("Usage: updatedb [OPTION]...\n"
-                "Update a mlocate database.\n"
+                "Update a plocate database.\n"
                 "\n"
                 "  -f, --add-prunefs FS           omit also FS\n"
                 "  -n, --add-prunenames NAMES     omit also NAMES\n"
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ parse_arguments(int argc, char *argv[])
                        if (conf_scan_root != NULL)
                                error(EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("--%s specified twice"),
                                      "database-root");
-                       conf_scan_root = canonicalize_file_name(optarg);
+                       conf_scan_root = realpath(optarg, nullptr);
                        if (conf_scan_root == NULL)
                                error(EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("invalid value `%s' of --%s"), optarg,
                                      "database-root");