Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <184670-220021212221948955@M2W055.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Originating-IP: 195.92.67.69 From: "elfyn-cygwin AT mail DOT exposure DOT org DOT uk" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:19:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Dec 2002 22:19:49.0045 (UTC) FILETIME=[ED618E50:01C29A50] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id gB2MK4f01759 Hi, Sorry about the last post, I went into windows hate mode for a second. As I've been looking for something to contribute to cygwin, and things in the dll-to-do list seem to be for a time when I know more about the cygwin api and the like, how about I volunteer for this one? Elfyn elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk Original Message: ----------------- From: Randall R Schulz rrschulz AT cris DOT com Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 13:39:58 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files Hi, Perhaps a utility analogous to "getfacl" and "setfacl" for Windows-specific file system properties is in order. If done properly, it could be used by those few who need to restrict output of other commands w.r.t. to Windows properties not otherwise accessible in Cygwin. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 13:09 2002-12-02, Wendell Pinegar wrote: >In our instance the reason this an issue is that we call the ls.exe utility >from PHP web code and have found that Windows XP is creating system hidden >files in some of our subdirectories (usually the XP auto-created thumbnail >databases). We have also found other ls.exe implementations that do >properly ignore hidden files. The MKS Toolkit for instance does properly >ignore these file types. > >It just seems odd that ls.exe shows files that would not be listed with >standard command line "dir". > >I agree that the proper way to implement this in cygwin would be to hide >system hidden files by default and have a switch to allow ls.exe to show >these files if requested (like "ls --show-hidden-files" and "ls >--show-system-files"). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/