Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With 'ls -f', things are unsorted in every dir, no matter > if they should be or not. > It would be great help in mc/GUIs if they were sorted by default, only > unsorted in dirs marked ``dont-sort''.
The traditional way to do things like that would be to create files .no-sort in the relevant directories, and have programs like mc look at that before sorting it. Similar examples I can think of include .no-dir-access files used by some web servers, .cvsignore (which tells cvs to ignore some files) and .nsr (which tells a certain backup system to ignore some files and subdirectories). I don't think special filesystem support for attributes on directories would be terribly useful (earlier I have argued for attaching property lists in inodes; if anything like that is ever implemented it could be used for directories as well, but I expect it to be more useful for regular files than for directories). /Niels