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[derefr]

That's really just silliness on the part of Apple; if they're creating dotfiles on a FAT32/NTFS/ExtFS disk, they should be setting the Hidden attribute for those same files. This is what e.g. Samba does automatically for network-attached FAT/NTFS folders on OSX/Linux clients, if I recall.

[manicdee → derefr]

There was a patch submitted to the Darwin project to do this:

Https://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-kernel/2004/Jul/msg00120.html

I don't think it ever got reviewed though.