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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:07:14 -0800 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3DEC03C2.4010402@Salira.com> References: <265000-22002121221502035 AT M2W057 DOT mail2web DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038877588 18694 206.184.204.2 (3 Dec 2002 01:06:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 01:06:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh elfyn-cygwin AT mail DOT exposure DOT org DOT uk wrote: > Hi, > > Try to remember that cygwin is a unix emulation layer for windows that > tries to emulate unix in as many respects as possible. To change the > ls source to accomadate for something windows uses to hide files, > sometimes unknown from its users, would not be unix like. Personally I like the idea. It could be implemented as yet another option that the user could choose to use but would be off by default. After all ps has the -W option which is distinctly Windows only, no? -- 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/