From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1bf0a76063ce59910453b8007eb36d7f@proxima.alt.za> References: <1bf0a76063ce59910453b8007eb36d7f@proxima.alt.za> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:08:17 +0000 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114877f841965d052bcddfdb Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in exportfs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8449b554-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a114877f841965d052bcddfdb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 15 February 2016 at 10:55, 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 *. --001a114877f841965d052bcddfdb Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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

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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