mutt's buffy-list
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Aug 29 23:14:53 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
It's reasonable and doable within the current design, I'll put it on
the TODO list but cannot make any promises for 2.2. I have to see how
the other features are going to shape up.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at backplane.com>
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