Re: interface to ask is a file is hidden

[Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:44 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 13 October 2008 13:39:21 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> It is a tradeoff.  How urgent is the feature, how much bloat will it
> create, what's the mainenance load on people like Christoph.  Since he
> is one of the _very_ few people who actually carry the maintenance load,
> I would take his advice rather seriously and try to convince him on
> technical grounds.
> 
> > Unfortunately I don't have time myself atm to implement this, but I hope
> > someone else is interested in working on this.
> 
> And this is a perfect example of how not to convince someone.  Once you
> have the time you might want to look at lsattr/chattr.  Until then, this
> discussion is a waste of readers time.

I'm not really out to convince anyone to do this work for me, because I
understand that nobody here is interested in file managers. 

However I don't think writing this is completely a waste of time.
Consider it an expression of interest in having stat.st_flags
implemented in Linux. I can use at least UF_HIDDEN and UF_IMMUTABLE in
the file manager. Perhaps someone else is interested in this also and
eventually the joint interest in it might get it implemented (it
happened in FreeBSD after all).


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