From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Larsson Subject: Re: interface to ask is a file is hidden Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:20:19 +0200 Message-ID: <1223968819.1064.7.camel@fatty> References: <20081010192104.GD19500@unused.rdu.redhat.com> <20081010193503.GE23734@samba1> <641322f90810101300v3ab5fc15hb20fca0374ebe4b4@mail.gmail.com> <20081010215722.GG8645@mit.edu> <20081010220156.GA25396@infradead.org> <1223886173.22225.159.camel@fatty> <20081013095709.GA10373@infradead.org> <1223894274.20751.19.camel@fatty> <20081013104336.GA23605@infradead.org> <1223897961.20751.40.camel@fatty> <20081013204445.GC22447@logfs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Theodore Tso , Nicol? Chieffo <84yelo3@gmail.com>, Jeremy Allison , Szabolcs Szakacsits , Josef Bacik , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:32893 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751635AbYJNHU4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:20:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081013204445.GC22447@logfs.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:44 +0200, J=F6rn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 13 October 2008 13:39:21 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > >=20 > > 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 th= ink > > that the opinions of others would be taken into consideration for t= his > > too, and I and others would like this feature. >=20 > 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 h= e > is one of the _very_ few people who actually carry the maintenance lo= ad, > I would take his advice rather seriously and try to convince him on > technical grounds. >=20 > > Unfortunately I don't have time myself atm to implement this, but I= hope > > someone else is interested in working on this. >=20 > And this is a perfect example of how not to convince someone. Once y= ou > have the time you might want to look at lsattr/chattr. Until then, t= his > 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.=20 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). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html