mutt's buffy-list

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Aug 28 03:11:36 PDT 2008


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





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