From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Cc: "Nicolò Chieffo" <84yelo3@gmail.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: interface to ask is a file is hidden
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:35:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081010193503.GE23734@samba1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081010192104.GD19500@unused.rdu.redhat.com>
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:21:04PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> What files are determined as "hidden" is completely up to the application, and
> not the filesystem. Every linux filesystem is going to return all entries in a
> directory when you do a readdir, and then it is up to the app to cull which
> entries it doesn't want. Having the fs/vfs arbitrarily decide which files are
> "hidden" and shouldn't be returned via readdir is not the correct way to tackle
> this problem, it should be decided via the application.
For Samba, we store an EA on a file representing its DOS attibutes.
"user.DOSATTRIB". Applications can then read that to determine if
a file is meant to be "hidden". Requires applications to coordinate
with the Samba definitions though.
Jeremy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-10 19:22 interface to ask is a file is hidden Nicolò Chieffo
2008-10-10 19:21 ` Josef Bacik
2008-10-10 19:35 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2008-10-10 20:00 ` Nicolò Chieffo
2008-10-10 19:57 ` Josef Bacik
2008-10-10 20:11 ` Nicolò Chieffo
2008-10-10 21:57 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-10 22:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-13 8:22 ` Alexander Larsson
2008-10-13 9:21 ` Nicolò Chieffo
2008-10-13 9:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-13 10:37 ` Nicolò Chieffo
2008-10-13 10:37 ` Alexander Larsson
2008-10-13 10:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-13 11:39 ` Alexander Larsson
2008-10-13 20:44 ` Jörn Engel
2008-10-13 20:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-14 7:20 ` Alexander Larsson
2008-10-10 22:18 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-10-10 22:21 ` Nicolò Chieffo
2008-10-10 22:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-10 22:33 ` Nicolò Chieffo
2008-10-10 22:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-10 22:58 ` Nicolò Chieffo
2008-10-10 23:12 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-10-11 0:10 ` Bryan Henderson
2008-10-11 1:36 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-10 22:57 ` Brad Boyer
2008-10-13 7:29 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2008-10-13 10:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-13 10:59 ` Alexander Larsson
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