Welcome to Unix. It has been this way for a long time. -Toby.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:15 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > it was just discovered that /bin/ls (without arguments) > if called by root-user > lists ".dotted" files > (while expected to hide ".dotted" files unless -A specified) > > even more surprising is > man ls > that clearly says: "-A is always set for superuser" > (which is absolutely peculiar!) > > WHY???????????????????????? > >
