Re: interface to ask is a file is hidden

[Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 06:43 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:37:54PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > The traditional unix file systems don't contain "is-hidden" metadata,
> > but some commonly used ones do. What possible bad can come out of
> > letting applications access that information efficiently if they want.
> 
> The bad thing that happens is that it will bloat the kernel with useless
> crap.  And a use case of "make graphical directly listings on foreign
> filesystems look a little less cluttered" is not enough to add a lot of
> code and new interfaces we'll have to maintain forever.

Its only useless and bloat if you think the feature is useless, so we're
once again back to your preferences in applications. I'd like to think
that the opinions of others would be taken into consideration for this
too, and I and others would like this feature.

Unfortunately I don't have time myself atm to implement this, but I hope
someone else is interested in working on this.