Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Daniel Phillips
2002-04-05T01:42:35Z

On April 5, 2002 03:21 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> >
> > So then something like this...
> >
> > alias ls='/bin/ls --ignore=SCCS'
>
> Oh, that's very useful. Considering that everything else still finds them,
> like find, shell autocompletion etc.
>
> The only thing "--ignore=xxx" is useful for is hackers that want to break
> into your system and hide their files.

And anyway, Larry sorta/kinda agreed to let us hide his bk metadata in one or
more hidden files, and when I grab him for clubbing^W dinner in a few days
I'll have a good chance to beat on him further to actually get that little
feature, which means more to me than it really should, personally.

--
Daniel