Name mangling patch

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

we tend to avoid adding "databases" ala UMSDOS: people / users tend to
delete / modify them.

the best solution would be to have OSes read FAT tables directly and
obtain the mangled names direct off the hd.

i bet this is only possible for linux, tho...

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Beau Kuiper wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I may be completely crazy, not had enough coffee, played too much
> half life, so if what I suggest is stupid, just kick me :)
> 
> Couldn't we have directory (such as '.mangle') to hold all the
> mangled names as symbolic links to the real files.
> 
> Then when a client using mangled names wants a file, smbd will
> simply enter that directory and get the file from there.
> 
> 
> 
> Beau Kuiper - ekuiperba at cc.curtin.edu.au
> ========================================================
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> maintain it
> 

<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
<a href="http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network Development </a>
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