On OS X, why does `sudo ls` show hidden (dot) files?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/931554/o...

Accepted answer links:
[4.4BSD-Lite]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_S...
[this FreeBSD commit]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commi...
[this commit]: https://bitbucket.org/braindamaged/openb...
[NetBSD]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD
[386BSD]: https://en.wikipedia.org/?titl
[there]: https://github.com/jsonn/src/blob/c589a9...
[this commit]: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-histo...
[4.3BSD-Reno]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_S...
[this commit]: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-histo...
[changed later that day]: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-histo...
[were added]: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-histo...
[this snapshot]: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-histo...
[this snapshot]: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-histo...
[was added]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commi...
[reworked]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commi...

Answer 2 links:
[a link]: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/f...

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