Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> It flags alarms, it is obscure, and generally it is bad form to have hidden >> files anywhere but under user homes anyway. There certainly is no excuse to >> have anything hidden inside the system hierarchies, you WANT to easily know >> what is there. > > Sure there is. For example, mooix uses ".mooix" as a flag file in > directories that are mooix objects, and uses other dotfiles inside > objects for fields that are only accessible by methods of that object > and are hidden from casual interspection (as opposed to public > fields).
It is always bad practice to hide things from the user or system
administrator, particularly outside their $HOME. If you need to store
additional metadata about files or directories, you really should be
using POSIX 1003.1e extended attributes. It's supported by glibc.
Regards,
Roger
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