Hi, On 10 Oct 2008, at 22:57, Theodore Tso wrote:
Ext3 has no concept of "hidden file". Niether does ext2, ext4, jfs, xfs, reseirfs, ufs, etc. The only ones that would have that concept is vfat (which supports fat16/fat32), ntfs, nfsv4 and cifs/smbfs. Even a filesystem which normally has very bad taste, MacOS's HFS, doesn't support the hidden attribute.
Sorry but you are somewhat wrong: UFS, HFS/HFS+, ZFS, and AFP all support the UF_HIDDEN file flag (in addition to the ones you state above).
In Mac OS X this is settable via chflags(2) and fchflags(2) and "ls" can display whether this flag is set by calling "ls -lO" for example (stat(2) returns the flags in st_flags). The Finder is the primary application which then hides such marked files from the GUI view analogous to how Windows Explorer hides hidden files.
PS. For completeness sake: On Mac OS X the hidden flag is also mirrored in the Finder Info. Also, all the flags can be obtained/set via getattrlist(2)/setattrlist(2) via ATTR_CMN_FLAGS in addition to chflags(2)/stat(2).
Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ -- 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
