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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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