Add a file flag for "hidden" files?

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Mark Day wrote:

>> You can find current flag allocation here:
>> 
>>   http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/sys/stat.h
>
> The obvious (to me) choice for UF_HIDDEN would be 0x00000040 (leaving 
> 0x00000020 unused as the user flag corresponding to SF_SNAPSHOT).  But would 
> anyone object to using 0x00008000 (the most significant bit of the user 
> flags)?

I see no reason not to do this -- I also checked in NetBSD and OpenBSD source, 
and neither has allocated any additional flags (NetBSD has picked up the 
snapshot flag from FreeBSD, but OpenBSD has not).

Robert N M Watson