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    SubjectRe: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48
    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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