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From: "Andrew Simmons" <andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Qid path generation
Date: Tue,  6 May 2003 13:23:23 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c901c3136e$16616dc0$3f00a8c0@MERCURY> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b899d420ced031fb566de867397fc17@plan9.bell-labs.com>


> By the way, here's my hash function.  I pass it the full path
> name and creation time:
>

Thanks, I'll give that a go. I don't know much about the theory of hash
keys. Does the addition of the creation date to the path significantly
reduce the likelihood of collisions?



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-06  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-05 21:29 Andrew Simmons
2003-05-05 21:30 ` W. Josephson
2003-05-05 21:33 ` rsc
2003-05-05 21:45   ` Andrew Simmons
2003-05-06 11:29     ` Aharon Robbins
2003-05-06  1:09   ` David Presotto
2003-05-06  1:10 ` David Presotto
2003-05-06  1:23   ` Andrew Simmons [this message]
2003-05-06  2:29     ` David Presotto
2003-05-06  3:05       ` Russ Cox

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