[PATCH] isofs: show hidden files, add granularity for assoc/hidden files flags

The current isofs treatment of hidden files is flawed in two ways.  First,
it does not provide sufficient granularity; it hides both 'hidden' files
and 'associated' files (resource fork for Mac files).  Second, the default
behavior to completely strip hidden files, while an admirable
implementation of the spec, is a poor choice given the real world use of
hidden files as a poor mans copy protection scheme for MSDOS and Windows
based systems.  A longer description of this is available here:

   http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0205.3/0267.html

This patch was originally built after a few private conversations with Alan
Cox; I shamefully failed to persist in seeing it go forward, I hope to make
amends now.

This patch introduces granularity by allowing explicit control for both
hidden and associated files.  It also reverses the default so that by
default, hidden files are treated as regular files on the iso9660 file
system.

This allow Wine to process Windows CDs, including those that are hybrid
Mac/Windows CDs properly and completely, without our having to go muck up
peoples fstabs as we do now.  (I have tested this with such a hybrid +
hidden CD and have verified that this patch works as claimed).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt
index f64a10506689..424585ff6ea1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ Mount options unique to the isofs filesystem.
   mode=xxx      Sets the permissions on files to xxx
   nojoliet      Ignore Joliet extensions if they are present.
   norock        Ignore Rock Ridge extensions if they are present.
-  unhide        Show hidden files.
+  hide          Completely strip hidden files from the file system.
+  showassoc     Show files marked with the 'associated' bit
+  unhide        Deprecated; showing hidden files is now default;
+                If given, it is a synonym for 'showassoc' which will
+                recreate previous unhide behavior
   session=x     Select number of session on multisession CD
   sbsector=xxx  Session begins from sector xxx