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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: interface to ask is a file is hidden
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:43:37 -0400
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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.