On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:21:40AM +0200, Nicol?? Chieffo wrote: > > You realie that except for filesystems that are legacy compatible with > > Microsoft, the concept of "hidden file" simply doesn't exist? So when > > you say: > > Sorry, but the concept of hidden files exists in ext3, in fact files > which name starts with a dot are hidden. No, they aren't. ls doesn't display them with the default option, but there is nothing anywher near a filesystem "hidden" concept. Unix filenames are just opaque bytestream, with only ".", ".." and "\0" having special meanings. -- 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
