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From: jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: How do you find the symbolic links to files.
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Date: 12 Dec 90 17:48:07 GMT
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brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>No! This is what Tom said, and it is entirely wrong. On a BSD system the
>right strategy is #2: do what's necessary to restore st_blocks. A
>program can reasonably depend on that information, so an archiver that
>doesn't restore st_blocks is buggy.

(This isn't a flame, I'm quite serious now!)
Can anyone think up a good use for looking at the st_blocks field?
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