On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 11:24:10PM +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote: > Also, it is legal for a nfsd to give the DOT files (/.foo) the HIDDEN > attribute by default? Right now on Windows they show up because NFSv4 > HIDDEN is not set, and it is annoying. I suppose an NFS server could do this, but I'm not aware of any other multi-protocol file server (eg, Oracle ZFS or NetApp) that does. Dot-files are obscured on POSIX systems by the NFS clients and their user space (ls and graphical file navigators). I don't see why the Windows NFS client can't be similarly architected. Or perhaps it could fabricate the HIDDEN attribute for such files itself. -- Chuck Lever
