1 Nov
2023
1 Nov
'23
4:55 p.m.
On Wed Nov 1 16:55:24 2023 +0000, Nikolay Sivov wrote:
Is it possible to use something closely compatible with how Windows does it? Maybe Samba has a clue about that. We'll need something that's patent free obviously.
From what I understand [Samba generates short filenames similary](https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/de20ee1adad4a6b26e07a6cf1ac89819cea...) to how wine does i.e. by creating hash (albeit with [different hashing function](https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/de20ee1adad4a6b26e07a6cf1ac89819cea...)) and only based on file name and not other files in the directory, which is different to [Windows where SFNs are influenced by other files in the directory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename).