From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel Subject: Re: interface to ask is a file is hidden Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:44:46 +0200 Message-ID: <20081013204445.GC22447@logfs.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 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: Alexander Larsson Return-path: Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:60084 "EHLO longford.logfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751799AbYJMUpR (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:45:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1223897961.20751.40.camel@fatty> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 thin= k > that the opinions of others would be taken into consideration for thi= s > 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 h= ope > 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, thi= s discussion is a waste of readers time. J=C3=B6rn --=20 Public Domain - Free as in Beer General Public - Free as in Speech BSD License - Free as in Enterprise Shared Source - Free as in "Work will make you..." -- 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