Re: rant about ~/Templates [Was: Re: spacial]

[Daniel Brodie <daniel brodienet com>]

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 11:13, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 15:46, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Gwe, 2004-04-30 at 11:23, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > > > We've still got .hidden file support in nautilus from gnome 2.4.
> > > 
> > > I didn't know (or remember) that dir existed! Thank you very much!!
> > 
> > Nor me, but it seems horribly buggy in 2.6
> > 
> > I did
> > 
> > mknod /tmp/.hidden p
> > 
> > then nautilus browsed /tmp
> > 
> > I've not looked at the code to see if we also do ownership checks, and
> > link checks (ln -s /dev/mem /tmp/.hidden) etc
> 
> 
> Thats not the way it works.
> 
> Put a ".hidden" file in /, and make the first line "tmp".
> 

I think what he means is that if you create a pipe named .hidden (say an
application creates it in the /tmp folder) then you can't browse that
folder due to nautilus freezing up, probably due to not checking to see
if it is a regular file before trying to read from it.
(Basically more error checking is needed according to his email)

If that is not what he meant, then I believe the problem still stands...

Daniel Brodie