Wendell Pinegar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There seems to be a long running defect in the implementation of > ls.exe. It shows windows system hidden files - which it shouldn't do > by default. On Unix systems files are hidden by placing a period in > front of the filename (ie, .profile), but in the windows world files > are not routinely hidden this way but are more commonly hidden by > setting the hidden attribute on the file. > > Shouldn't ls.exe honor the file system attribute and not show the > hidden windows files?
It it really a big deal? Worth patching fileutils to make special allowance for? There is no unixy analogue, so Cygwin can't help here. Personally, I don't see the point of patching fileutils to do this - but that's just an opinion. Max. -- 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/
