in reply to Re^2: Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectories
in thread Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectories

Correct. If that 1 in 2128 possibility bothers you there's always Digest::SHA1 for 1 in 2160. Or keep a DBM mapping of "path" to hash and check for collisions when adding a new "path" entry.

Update: Left out the chance of collision for SHA1.

  • Comment on Re^3: Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectories

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom