There's a bug from 2.1.61 to 2.1.131 in full_name_hash(). The name
parameter should be of type `unsigned', otherwise negative numbers get
turned into large positive ones when calling partial_name_hash.
Patch appended at the end.
/assar
--- dcache.h~ Wed Dec 2 06:45:10 1998
+++ dcache.h Sun Dec 6 00:14:04 1998
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
hash += hash >> 4*sizeof(hash);
return (unsigned int) hash;
}
/* Compute the hash for a name string. */
-static __inline__ unsigned int full_name_hash(const char * name, unsigned int len)
+static __inline__ unsigned int full_name_hash(const unsigned char * name, unsigned int len)
{
unsigned long hash = init_name_hash();
while (len--)
hash = partial_name_hash(*name++, hash);
return end_name_hash(hash);
-
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