Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU!r3jjs
From: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: hard links: how to tell with system call under BSD4.3?
Message-ID: <1344@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Date: 13 May 91 02:21:53 GMT
References: <1991May10.013347.8621@athena.mit.edu> <1991May10.210452.28889@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher)
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Akron Computer Center, Ohio
Lines: 16

In article <1991May10.210452.28889@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>
>Check for the link count.  That will tell you how many names the file has.
>For a directory it should always be 2, one for the parent pointing to it and
>one for it's own "." file.

Hm.. not sure if our system is damaged or not, but all of a directories
children also have a link to the parent (..).  

I can tell how many branches there are by looking at the hardlink number
and subracting two.
-- 
--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
Jeremy J Starcher         !  No programmer programs in LOGO after reaching
r3jjs@vax1.cc.uakron.edu  !  age 14...
r3jjs@akronvm.bitnet      !