[Samba] Re: String overflow in safe_strcpy - bug in documentation

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:51:25PM +0200, Thomas Bork wrote:
> Herb Lewis schrieb:
> 
> >you can change "mangle prefix" to specify the number of characters you
> >want to stay the same. Just remember the more letters that remain the
> >same the more likely you will get a collision and slow things down.
> 
> http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html
> 
> mangling method (G)
> controls the algorithm used for the generating the mangled names. Can 
> take two different values, "hash" and "hash2". "hash" is the default and
>                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> is the algorithm that has been used in Samba for many years. "hash2" is 
> a newer and considered a better algorithm (generates less collisions) in 
> the names. However, many Win32 applications store the mangled names and 
> so changing to the new algorithm must not be done lightly as these 
> applications may break unless reinstalled.
> 
> Default: mangling method = hash2
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Example: mangling method = hash
> 
> 
> But:
> "hash" is not the default (this was in 2.2.x)

Fixed in the SVN docs - thanks a *lot* !

Jeremy.