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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
        "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:40:46 +0200
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Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On April 5, 2002 03:21 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > 
> > So then something like this...
> > 
> > alias ls='/bin/ls --ignore=SCCS'
> 
> Oh, that's very useful. Considering that everything else still finds them, 
> like find, shell autocompletion etc.
> 
> The only thing "--ignore=xxx" is useful for is hackers that want to break 
> into your system and hide their files.

And anyway, Larry sorta/kinda agreed to let us hide his bk metadata in one or
more hidden files, and when I grab him for clubbing^W dinner in a few days
I'll have a good chance to beat on him further to actually get that little
feature, which means more to me than it really should, personally.

-- 
Daniel
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