Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 97 14:52:05 +0200 | Subject | Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48 |
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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.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
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