[jcifs] Re: JCIFS 0.9 Objectives

[Julian Reschke]

eglass1 at comcast.net wrote:

>>1) I still consider it a bug, because it's not documented and 
>>inconsistent with java.io.File.
>>
>>2) I just tried DosFileFilter as workaround, and this seems to work. Can 
>>I rely on the constructor with ("*", 0xff) to really return all files?
>>
> 
> 
> I'm kind of on the fence on this one; on the one hand, it would seem
> reasonable to hide hidden files (since they are, you know, hidden).  On the

Hiding files is UI functionality. Show me a single filesystem API that 
excludes hidden files by default...

> ...

Regards, Julian


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