mangling char ignored in mangle_hash2.c ...

[Richard Sharpe]

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Having looked at mangle_hash2, it is clear that the mangling char is hard
> > coded. I am sure this is not intended.
> > 
> > Should I fix it?
> 
> While tridge would be a much better one to comment, I will say this:
> 
> The new mangling scheme was designed to be very fast, and not
> particulary flexible.  In fact, it could be argued that the inflexibilty
> is a feature - becouse changes to the mangling scheme actually have some
> nasty consequenses.  (8.3 names are stored by some applications etc,
> hence why we have not moved to hash2 in 2.2 by default)

Oh, I agree with that, however, hard-coding ~ when lp_mangling_char() 
would be almost as fast, and would have the same effect in the default 
case, seems wrong.

Regards
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