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Re: rm -rf -> Circular directory structure


"Igor V. Kovalenko" <iko@crec.mipt.ru> writes:

>Looking at ...include/sys/types.h I found that ino_t is actually
>unsigned short, that is only 16 bit in size. Thus, we (in 'rm' etc..)
>do compare the lower 16 bits of prepared by hash_path_name()
>32-bit integer.
>  I think this is a main cause for $subj$, though the hashing
>function itself is not as perfect as it could be (in theory).

The whole idea of using a hash function to compute inode numbers
is fundamentally broken.  Perhaps it would be better to think
about a solution that works rather than making a fundamentally
broken one slightly less broken.

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