[Samba] Dotfiles with multiple dots not marked as hidden

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Mar 25 16:56:54 GMT 2009


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:45:44PM +0000, Barry Kelly wrote:
> I have "hide dot files" on, but I have noticed that while files with a
> single dot are hidden, files with multiple dots are not:
> 
> ".foo" - hidden
> "...foo" - not hidden
> 
> Is this by design? *nix certainly hide such files by default...

No, it's a bug. The ..foo files are getting matched by
the logic to avoid making .. directories hidden. Should
be a quick fix...

Jeremy.


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