Files in a mounted hidden directory are not visible

General
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Platform: Fedora

On host, I have the following files

/a/.b/c/d/1.txt
/a/.b/c/d/2.txt

when I run the following

docker run --rm -v /a:/a gcc:10-buster ls -la /a/.b/c/d

Actual Output:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Oct 30 16:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 31 Oct 30 16:38 …

Expected output:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Oct 30 16:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 31 Oct 30 16:38 …
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Oct 30 16:38 1.txt
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Oct 30 16:38 2.txt

i.e, folders coming from a hidden directory are visible, but files are not visible inside the container.

How can I mound a hidden directory correctly?

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How did you install Docker? Official Docker would not care about “hidden” folders. That is just a folder starting with a dot wich is hidden on Linux by default.

Are you using Docker Desktop for Linux or Docker CE?

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I am also facing the same issue
Platform: Mac OS
Version 4.16.2 (95914)
Installed Docker desktop

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That should work too, but you can check if you are using the virtiofs filesharing implementation (general settings). It is usually recommended to use that instead of the legacy solutions.

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Thanks… That worked for me.