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From: brian@hpausla.aso.hp.com (Brian Coogan)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Re:  ftw (was Re: Anything faster than stat(S)? ...)
Message-ID: <2400002@hpausla.aso.hp.com>
Date: 12 Dec 89 01:16:06 GMT
References: <10299@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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Joe Pruett <joey@tessi.UUCP> writes in alt.sources:
> A quick hack I've used in a directory traversal program is to use the
> link count of . to determine how many subdirectories there are.

A clever trick.  Worth keeping in mind that it won't work for symbolic
links (usually you don't want it to anyway).