On 15 February 2016 at 01:05, arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> for example, assume we want to exclude all files of name that begins with
> “.”,
> then it is probably difficult to do so using only nsfile.
>

Yes, although that convention isn't in Plan 9, and it might be worthwhile
reconsidering how and why it is used.
If for configuration files, perhaps they should be stored elsewhere; if for
access control (eg, .htaccess), perhaps
groups would be better, with dynamic group membership providing the effect
of an access control list.