Alan Cox <[email protected]> writes: >> Isn't there some other "proper" way of doing this in userspace, or is >> this really the correct way? > > You can look at the S_IFMT bits and stuff however link count indicating > number of subdirectories is a standard Unix thing and used by many quite > mundane tools as an optimisation.
Those tools for a decade or better all know to treat nlink == 1 as the case where the optimization does not apply. On a traditional unix filesytem the most common place you will see nlink == 1 is when the link count overflows. extN with > 65536 subdirectories as I recall. Eric _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
