On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 18:59 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > You don't even need the names. stat("/some/directory") will give you
> > the number of entries in the directory in the st_nlink field. An empty
> > directory has st_nlink=2 because of "." and "..". This is useful for
> > non-deep counts.
>
> Hmm. This is interesting. How portable is this amongst filesystems? (Of
> course, it'll only work for file:/// files.)
Crap, I lied :) st_nlink for a directory gives you the number of
*subdirectories*, including . and ..
This is what we used in GMC to know when to display an expander in the
folder tree.
Sorry for the confusion,
Federico
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