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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1999
Armin Harold Christofferson, Rochester, MN (US);
Leon Edward Gregg, Rochester, MN (US);
James Lawrence Tilbury, Rochester, MN (US);
James Michael Van Oosbree, Rochester, MN (US);
Armin Harold Christofferson, Rochester, MN (US);
Leon Edward Gregg, Rochester, MN (US);
James Lawrence Tilbury, Rochester, MN (US);
James Michael Van Oosbree, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for processing an input file in a file system, wherein the input file has an input file name. A function is applied to map the input file name to a value. A data structure is processed to determine whether there is a preexisting file in the file system having a name that maps, according to the function, to the same value to which the input file name maps. Two files that map to a same value according to the function are capable of having a same name.