Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 01/18/12 06:25, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> What df should do is automatically skip the entries that are obscured or
>> generally inaccessible.
>
> Isn't this missing some of the larger context? df is just doing what
> lots of other programs do: finding out what file systems one has,
> and reporting statistics on them. It sounds suboptimal to require
> the maintainers of all these programs (coreutils, nautilus, etc.)
> to rewrite their apps to deal with obscured entries. Surely it would
> be better to have the kernel ordinarily return just the ordinary entries,
> and to return obscured entries only when they are specially requested.
> That way, this issue would be isolated to the few bits of code that really
> want to see obscured entries.
+1. Kernel knows best anyway.
MfG
Goswin
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