Remember there are two possibilities: 1. Reading the hidden attribute from filesystems that support it 2. Pattern-matching on commonly-hidden filenames like Thumbs.db, desktop.ini, ~*.tmp, __MACOSX, etc. - like a global .hidden file
The kernel devs refuse to consider #1, while dfalk's patch seems to implement #2. Does Samba do something like #1 that could be implemented for local filesystems? I don't see anything on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ about this. The mailing list discussion says it will be ignored, but maybe we should file it anyway? I don't think #2 is a bad idea at all, though, and could probably be extended to be part of a related idea to allow for files to be "attached" to other files, with the attachments hidden by default (book.txt~ attached to book.txt, and web_page_files attached to web_page.html, for instance). That might require glob-matching as well as filename matching, though, but it's also something done on a file- level rather than a filesystem-level. Does the .hidden convention allow for any type of wildcard or regexp? I can't find documentation. -- Non-Linux hidden files like Thumbs.db should be treated the same as .filename https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
