On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:45:10 -0800 [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> 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. Most of the do. but as has been demonstrated here - not all _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
