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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 09:36:06 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
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Wendell,

That is at the very best a matter of opinion and I don't think your opinion 
is widely shared. In particular, the mixing of file system models in the 
"ls" source code that would be required to implement your suggestion would 
render ls a horse of a different color and would set a poor precedent for 
Cygwin tool source code where the bar is fairly high for emplacing 
Cygwin-specific code. If you examine the ls source, you'll find it 
blissfully free of Cygwin-specific featuring.

The Windows "hidden" attribute has no direct counterpart in Unix / POSIX 
file systems, and hence cannot readily be reflected in the file information 
structures (see stat(2)--use one of the on-line POSIX manual resources) 
used by Unix file systems. Modifying the name to have a leading period 
would be a ghastly thing to do.

Basically, what you suggest is not really feasible and you'll have to learn 
to live with this "defect."

Randall Schulz
Mountain Veiw, CA USA


At 09:01 2002-12-02, Wendell Pinegar 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?


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