It's possible you're not getting any clear answers because the
question is unclear.  Linux does many different kinds of name lookup
all over the system.  What names are you talking about?



On Mar 1, 3:50 pm, aanchal goyal <[email protected]> wrote:
> anyone knows what hash function is used in the name lookup procedure in
> linux?
>
> Procedure lookup(name)
> 1: h := hash(name)
> 2: dentryNode := hashtable(h)
> 3: while dentryNode != NULL do
> 4: if dentryNode- >name != name then
> 5: dentryNode := dentryNode- >next
> 6: else
> 7: return dentryNode
> 8: end if
> 9: end while
> --
> Regards,*
> Aanchal Goyal*.

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