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From: ksudarsh@oracle.uucp (Krishna Sudarshan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Inode Reference Count
Keywords: Inode Reference Count
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.011351.4635@oracle.com>
Date: 7 Apr 91 01:13:51 GMT
Reply-To: ksudarsh@oracle.uucp (Krishna Sudarshan)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
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  Unix kernel keeps a count of the number of active references to a file
  (Incore Inode). Is there any system call with which a user (user process) 
  can determine this number? Any help from you wizards would be greatly
  appreciated.

  thanks,

  -Krishna