Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:27:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: 1 bug(?) open/readdir & glob
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Mark Habersack wrote:

> Frankly, I don't see why a program might suffer from seeing hid/sys
> files? 

Because `findfirst' by default doesn't bring the hidden files, and people 
tend to think about `readdir' as a substitute for `findfirst'.  If a 
program doesn't expect to get files that it cannot change, it might 
break.