Alon Altman wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ira Abramov wrote:
/boot has no subdirectories, /usr has 11, and /var has 19. all show a
link count of n+3.
a. is this corect? I thought n+2 was the right number, like Samhain
suggests.
n+3 (parent, ., and ..).
".." does not point to that directory. It points to the parent
directory. In Ira's case - the "boot" entry in / points to the inode, as
well as the "." entry in /boot. However, the ".." entry in /boot points
to the / inode.
If the directory is the root, ".." indeed points back at it, but then it
doesn't have a parent, you are still left with n+2.
Shachar
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