Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
Fri, 8 Aug 97 14:52:05 +0200


Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch> writes:

|> A path component canonicalizer would IMHO be the best thing. If it wasn't
|> for that hidden <-> prepended dot (which I never liked but eventually gave
|> up fighting :-( ) rule, all canonical names would either have the same
|> size or they'd shrink, so one could change them in place.

You can't because that would break hashing.

Andreas.

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