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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in exportfs
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:38:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <08c6c1e6341cc59e5bd0d7d975b674f1@lilly.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6db19db3329dbd3f443d15ef5b4189a@proxima.alt.za>

> My point was that under the circumstances we are stuck with people who
> DO use the leading dot to make files disappear from directory listings
> and they won't budge :-)

what the intent of the leading dot might be is not recorded in the file system and
one can ignore the convention as one wishes, with no impact to any other user.
i don't remember the last time i've hidden dot files from myself by using only
the standard options on a unix-y system.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-15 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-16 23:31 arisawa
2015-12-17 11:40 ` Peter Hull
2015-12-17 13:05   ` arisawa
2015-12-22  9:25     ` Peter Hull
2015-12-22 10:02       ` arisawa
2016-02-13 14:26         ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-14  2:00           ` Prof Brucee
2016-02-14 10:27             ` hiro
2016-02-14 12:21               ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-14 12:33           ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-14 16:38             ` cinap_lenrek
2016-02-14 22:57               ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15  1:05                 ` arisawa
2016-02-15  6:12                   ` Bruce Ellis
2016-02-15 10:34                   ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 10:55                     ` lucio
2016-02-15 12:08                       ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 12:13                         ` Brantley Coile
2016-02-15 15:05                           ` lucio
2016-02-15 15:24                             ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-15 12:44                         ` lucio
2016-02-15 12:48                           ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 14:03                             ` lucio
2016-02-15 15:38                           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2016-02-15 15:56                             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-15 12:18                       ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 15:30                     ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-15 23:32                       ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-19 14:12                   ` Charles Forsyth

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