[Bug 22286] GetShortPathName -> GetLongPathName doesn't give back same file
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Tue Apr 6 09:08:57 CDT 2010
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22286
John M. Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #7 from John M. Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> 2010-04-06 09:08:57 ---
> > That's a hash collision, the two names will hash to the same short name. I
> > guess you are just unlucky... If you need reliable short names you have to use
> > a vfat filesystem.
>
> Is this basically a wontfix?
I think it will not be easy to fix. A hash algorithm will have collisions. The
native windows system gets around this problem by retaining the short file name
in the filesystem.
I wonder how samba solves this?
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