On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:21:04PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > 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. For Samba, we store an EA on a file representing its DOS attibutes. "user.DOSATTRIB". Applications can then read that to determine if a file is meant to be "hidden". Requires applications to coordinate with the Samba definitions though. Jeremy -- 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
