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Hiding files starting with a dot is just a cosmetic, view level implementation. This article shows that Windows had coupled this behavior directly to system lev
by stevebmark 9y ago
Hiding files starting with a dot is just a cosmetic, view level implementation. This article shows that Windows had coupled this behavior directly to system level file flags.
- badosu 9y ago> Hiding files starting with a dot is just a cosmetic, view level implementation. Is it? [0] [0]: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9...
- sratner 9y agoThis is also just a cosmetic, view level implementation in Explorer (complete with a bug, also in Explorer). In fact, the fix was to use kernel fs functions directly.
- paulddraper 9y ago> cosmetic, view level implementation Sort of. The kernel doesn't treat it special but the OS does. Any POSIX compliant shell won't include dot files for a single wildcard. E.g. rm -fr * doesn't empty the current directory.