From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nicol?? Chieffo <84yelo3@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, 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 18:25:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081010222518.GA7669@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <641322f90810101521o50191390w529c9b2c9b6c802@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:21:40AM +0200, Nicol?? Chieffo wrote:
> > You realie that except for filesystems that are legacy compatible with
> > Microsoft, the concept of "hidden file" simply doesn't exist? So when
> > you say:
>
> Sorry, but the concept of hidden files exists in ext3, in fact files
> which name starts with a dot are hidden.
No, they aren't. ls doesn't display them with the default option, but
there is nothing anywher near a filesystem "hidden" concept. Unix
filenames are just opaque bytestream, with only ".", ".." and "\0"
having special meanings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 22:25 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
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 [this message]
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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