Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 20:51:12 +0300
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 18:58:50 +0200
> 
> So I'd expect the same behaviour as on DOS: hidden files should not be
> seen in directory walks by default (as is the case now), and destructive
> commands such as rm should by default pretend not to find them.

Btw, Richard: there seems to be a bug in Fileutils: they do find
hidden and system files even without the -a flag.  The original port
of Fileutils 3.16 built with v2.01 did TRT, IIRC.

It seems like the problem is that the original ported code assumed
that `readdir' skips hidden files, and it took care to set the
__OPENDIR_FIND_HIDDEN flag when the user options required that.
However, beginning with v2.02, `readdir' finds hidden files by
default, so Fileutils should now set the __OPENDIR_NO_HIDDEN flag at
startup.