Paul Eggert wrote: > My guess is that when the link count drops to zero, "bad things happen" > and the test fails at that point without needing to call stat or test > st_nlink.
Probably, yes. We should have documented it better then. > The buggy platforms are so old that it might make sense to stop > supporting them, as we can't easily test these failures any more. I agree for NetBSD 1.6 (its successor came out more than 12 years ago). Regarding Cygwin 1.5.x, I still have a machine that runs it. Bruno
