What makes a file private?

tvaughan

I'm trying to figure out how to programmatically determine if a file is a 'private' file.

I have my autoprivate.cfg set up to mark *.bak, *.class, *.tmp and so on as 'private' files. They show up in the TeamSite GUI as private files like they're supposed to, but they seem to be completey indistinguishable from public files when you are on the filesystem.

I was guessing that TeamSite slapped some sort of external attribute on them to mark them as such, but that ain't the case.

Does anyone know how if there is some property somewhere associated with a file that distinguishes it as 'private'? I would very much like to avoid having to write my own autoprivate.cfg parser that I would use to check the 'privateness' of a filename.

Thanks,
Tom