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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Wendell Pinegar" <wpinegar AT healthtech DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:29:04 -0000
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Wendell Pinegar <wpinegar AT healthtech DOT net> wrote:

> There seems to be a long running defect in the implementation of
> ls.exe.  It shows windows system hidden files - which it shouldn't do
> by default.  On Unix systems files are hidden by placing a period in
> front of the filename (ie, .profile), but in the windows world files
> are not routinely hidden this way but are more commonly hidden by
> setting the hidden attribute on the file.
>
> Shouldn't ls.exe honor the file system attribute and not show the
> hidden windows files?

It it really a big deal? Worth patching fileutils to make special allowance
for?

There is no unixy analogue, so Cygwin can't help here.

Personally, I don't see the point of patching fileutils to do this - but
that's just an opinion.


Max.



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