Re: Will Reiser4 support a "hidden" attribute?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

I respectfully disagree, and I expect us to keep to the plan I 
outlined.  Mr. Demidov, put this on your list of tasks to complete.

Guido, I am sorry to say that this will probably get added after we 
submit a reiser4 with fully debugged traditional functionality to Linus, 
which means sometime next year if I don't go broke in January.

Hans

Nikita Danilov wrote:

>Hans Reiser writes:
> > Nikita, please update us all on how far we have gotten in implementing this.
>
>OK.
>
>We currently don't have ability to hide particular file. That is, there
>is no way to somehow mark file hidden at the kernel level. If I am
>allowed to humbly voice my opinion, usages shown by participants of this
>thread (trimming down list of files visible in the GUI front-end) should
>be done at the user level. In UNIX ls(1) command hides dot files for
>ages.
>
>On the other hand, some file system objects (pseudo files
>http://namesys.com/v4/pseudo.html) are not shown by the readdir(2). But
>this is to keep various utilities like cp(1) and friends from trying to
>read from them.
>
> > 
> > -- 
> > Hans
> > 
> > 
>
>Nikita.
>
>
>  
>


-- 
Hans