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SubjectRe: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.
Alan Cox wrote:
> You change fundamental things like the behaviour of "more *" when people want
> to read the files in a directory known the directories will just give
> "is a directory" messages. Now they will give files from directories
> below.

This only happens for directories with default files.
And since these are conceptually "files with structure/metadata",
having "more *" show the flat version is surely the Right Behaviour(tm).

Ordinary directories will not be affected.

-- Jamie

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