From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-22B85F73-ACC6-4F7D-A58C-B073BFCB6F83 MIME-version: 1.0 (1.0) From: Brantley Coile In-reply-to: Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:13:27 -0500 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-id: <58BAD4A2-0F36-404B-8A13-A4A4737733F3@me.com> References: <1bf0a76063ce59910453b8007eb36d7f@proxima.alt.za> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in exportfs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 844e1a2c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-22B85F73-ACC6-4F7D-A58C-B073BFCB6F83 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ah, my memory fails me, mostly due to too much time on Unipress machines in t= he 1980's.=20 Sent from my iPad > On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:08 AM, Charles Forsyth w= rote: >=20 >=20 >> On 15 February 2016 at 10:55, wrote: >>=20 >> Whereas I agree that the leading-dot convention ought to be buried, in >> reality (a) it is not going to just go away and (b) if it was so >> readily accepted, it must have fulfilled a need. >=20 > There is no "leading dot" convention in Plan 9. > That's in BSD-derived UNIX, and it's the result of an simplified hack in l= s, which was fixed in Seventh Edition. > If you can open it, it's obviously not "hidden": it's just inconvenient to= use with grep *. --Apple-Mail-22B85F73-ACC6-4F7D-A58C-B073BFCB6F83 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Ah, my memory fails me, mostly due to too much time on Unipress machines in the 1980's.

Sent from my iPad

On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:08 AM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 15 February 2016 at 10:55, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:

Whereas I agree that the leading-dot convention ought to be buried, in
reality (a) it is not going to just go away and (b) if it was so
readily accepted, it must have fulfilled a need.

There is no "leading dot" convention in Plan 9.
That's in BSD-derived UNIX, and it's the result of an simplified hack in ls, which was fixed in Seventh Edition.
If you can open it, it's obviously not "hidden": it's just inconvenient to use with grep *.

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