On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:22:11PM +0200, Nicolò Chieffo wrote: > Recently there have been a discussion between the nautilus & GIO > maintainer, and the ntfs-3g maintainer to implement a way to not show > files in nautilus if they are hidden. > > Currently only files starting with a "." are hidden, as you can see in > the GIO _g_local_file_info_get() > > if (basename != NULL && basename[0] == '.') > g_file_info_set_is_hidden (info, TRUE); > > Of course, since we often have a multi-OS & multi-filesystem > environment, it is a big limitation to consider hidden files only > those files. > There are some use cases in which we need a wider view of hidden files: > - ntfs shared partitions & external disks > - fat32 shared partitions & external disks > - fat16 usb keys/multimedia devices > > Both the maintainers state that it's not a good idea to patch GIO to > check which filesystem is hosting the file, and then ask it using the > specific driver whether the file is hidden or not. > Everything should be transparent for GIO, which should only make one > call to a standard interface, that all filesystem drivers shall > implement. > > Is it possible to consider this request? > The discussion is in this moment hosted in the nautilus mailing list > with this subject name: "nautilus & hidden files". > What files are determined as "hidden" is completely up to the application, and not the filesystem. Every linux filesystem is going to return all entries in a directory when you do a readdir, and then it is up to the app to cull which entries it doesn't want. Having the fs/vfs arbitrarily decide which files are "hidden" and shouldn't be returned via readdir is not the correct way to tackle this problem, it should be decided via the application. Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
