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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: interface to ask is a file is hidden
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:25:18 -0400
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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.