On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:49:13PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I could fake it I guess, but programs really have no business making > assumptions about directories based on their st_nlinks or st_size > fields.
At least nlinks == 2 is a hard-coded assumption for leaf directories in various programs like find(1). You don't have to change the link count for every file create/destroy, only directories. Joerg
