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From: bill@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley)
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Subject: Re: hard links: how to tell with system call under BSD4.3?
Message-ID: <1991May16.135434.23207@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 16 May 91 13:54:34 GMT
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In article <1344@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>, r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher) writes:
|> 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 an
                                       ^
					at least

|> >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 (..).  

this is *definately* how it should be !!

|> 
|> I can tell how many branches there are by looking at the hardlink number
|> and subracting two.