Re: I'm a total push-over..

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Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:

> But since multiple hash functions will be needed anyway to support 
> different notions of case-insensitivity, if the warning is not enabled, 
> there is no reason to use a case-insensitive hash function with a 
> byte-exact comparison.

No, only multiple compare functions will be needed.  The hash function can 
be built in such a manner that it guarantees that file names being equal 
with _any_ of the compare functions fall into the same bucket.

The upside of such a hash function: less code to maintain.

Hth,
Dscho

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