[jcifs] Hidden Files from listFiles()?

[Michael B Allen]

> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:08:27PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
>> I think I'm leaning toward case 2 just because jCIFS is more likely to
>> be
>> used to utilitarian purposes as opposed to casually perusing through
>> files
>> with the capacity to delete something by accident.
>
> I would tend toward leaving hidden files hidden.  Even in Unix you have to
> specifically ask to see the hidden files.  My gut reaction is that this is
> the path of least surprise.

Ok, well I could go either way with this and it's trivial to do it either
way. One more opinion would close the issue...

>> Have you ever noticed ATTR_READONLY and ATTR_ARCHIVE are basically
>> ignored
>> by TRANS2_FIND_FIRST2/NEXT2?
>
> No, but now I know to look for it.  :)
> Interesting how this stuff works (or doesn't).

Actually I'm not entirely positive about this. If those attributes are off
you still get read-only and hidden files so they appear to be ignored. It
would be interesting to try the TRANS2_FIND_FIRST2/NEXT2 with different
combinations of attributes to see if they had any effect though. You could
do this easily with jCIFS by editing Trans2FindFirst2.java. I would try it
but my current tree is laying all over the driveway at the moment -- if
you know what I mean.

Mike

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