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Subject: Re: isofs unhide option:  troubles with Wine
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
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On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 18:05, Jeremy White wrote:
> > possible rather than impossible. Question is - why was hide the default
> > and what was that decision based upon ?
> 
> I agree with Alan - this is the key question.  
> 
> I would further argue that silence in response to this question
> suggests that there was no carefully considered reason;
> presumably a good hacker just followed the spec, without considering how
> these CDs are actually used.
> 
> It further suggests to me that I should prep a patch.

Go for it. I'll give it a test in the -ac tree happily. If nobody
screams it can then go upstream.

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