From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 13:10:36 CDT
jose.kahan@w3.org (Jose Kahan) writes:
>I'm using an 32 bit. FNV1 hash function [1] and giving it as input the
>msgid and the From date. This will hopefully allow to have a
>unique hash name. If the 2^32 hash space isn't wide enough, we can
>always move to 64 bits... time will tell.
I'm not very happy with using hope as a means of avoiding problems.
Is there a good reason for not detecting and fixing collisions?
>More in detail, the change was quite straightforward to do. I changed
>all the functions where a msgnum value was used to create lnks or make
>filenames and made it go through a function. In function of your
>hypermail options, this function (file.c:message_name()) will either
>return the msgnum formatted in %.04d or the message hash name.
I still see a bunch of %.4d's in the source code, so I doubt you've been
thorough.
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