From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:38:37 -0800 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <08c6c1e6341cc59e5bd0d7d975b674f1@lilly.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in exportfs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 847e8478-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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