On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:46 PM, James Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Edward O'Connor wrote:
>> Olli wrote:
>>> I think we should discuss about moving File API: Directories and
>>> System API from Recommendation track to Note.
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>
> Indeed. We are not enthusiastic about implementing an API that has to
> traverse directory trees as this has significant technical challenges, or
> may expose user's path names, as this has security implications. Also AIUI
> this API is not a good fit for all platforms.

There's nothing in the spec that exposes user paths.  That's just FUD.

Adam

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