[Samba] Hashing for short pathnames

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Holger Biber wrote:

> using samba 2.2.5-UL (on a SuSE-SLOX-System)  we have to mangle long
> pathnames to short ones. We need this for some of our apps which
> generate batch-files (*.bat) for compilation. Normally this works
> correctly, exept for a directory named "Only_for_generation". This
> directory is mangled into "Only_~%0" (it' s NULL at the end). And this
> is the problem. In batch-files (*.bat) you shouldn't use this, because
> it meens to call the batch itself (like $0 in bash-scripts). There must
> be a possibility to exclude "%" from the resulting hash values. Perhaps
> other special characters, like "$§&..." could leed to faults too.

How about

	mangling chr = ^
 
> I've changed the hash mathod to "hash2":
>      mangling method = hash2
> but doesn't help.
> 
> For our special case if inserted a mangled map:
>        mangled map = (Only_for_generation Only_~01)

This is probably suffering from bit rot so I wouldn't use it unless 
you are willing to debug it.






cheers, jerry
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