Re: isofs unhide option: troubles with Wine

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205251513280.10327-100000@sharra.ivimey.org>
By author:    Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> AFAIK, Windows "hidden" files are supposed to behave much like Unix 'dot' 
> files (.login, etc), so IMO the kernel should not use the hidden bit at all. 
> Instead, it should be 'ls' et al that do this. Now, I guess this isn't 
> particularly practical without changing fileutils and many other things, so I 
> would suggest that the kernel is changed to pass on, if possible, but 
> basically ignore the 'hidden' bit.
> 

There really should be some kind of ioctl() or other syscall to
get/set the filesystem-specific attributes in cases like FAT (hidden,
system, archive) and ISO9660.  Trying to graft their meaning onto the
Unix system just doesn't make sense.

	-hpa
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