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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:43:25 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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Subject: Re: isofs unhide option:  troubles with Wine
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Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3 Jun 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>No, I think that's a bad idea.  Make them listed, but make it possible
>>to query the attribute flags.
> 
> 
> So you suggest letting ls do the hide? Or if not, what do we call them 
> "hidden" for?
> 

I don't think it makes any sense for anything in Unix to hide them at all.

The "hidden" flag, however, matters to programs like Wine.

	-hpa


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