From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Nicol? Chieffo <84yelo3@gmail.com>,
Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>,
Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>,
Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>,
Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: interface to ask is a file is hidden
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:01:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081010220156.GA25396@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081010215722.GG8645@mit.edu>
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:57:22PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> The best you might be able to get is an interface that allows an
> application to get or set the hidden attribute if is supported --- but
> the application must be willing to accept a permission denied error
> (some filesystems may only permit people with certain access right or
> on some ACL to set the attribute), or a "operation not supported"
> failure, for those filesystems that simply have not concept of "hidden
> file".
Yes. he best thing you could do is to add support for the
FAT_IOCTL_GET_ATTRIBUTES/FAT_IOCTL_SET_ATTRIBUTES ioctls to other
windows-heritage filesystems. Feel free to submit patches.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 22:02 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
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 [this message]
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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