Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/08/03/04:48:39
On Aug 2 23:44, Jim Pritts wrote:
> I created a program that demonstrates a bug with link() in Cygwin.
> The program first creates a file named "dummy" and then creates 1050
> hard links to file "dummy" by calling link(). link() reports no error
> for all 1050 calls. However when an "ls -la dummy" is performed, only
> 1024 hard links to dummy are reported. In addition, if an ls -la is
> performed on any hard link greater than 1023, then the report is that
> there is only one hard link to the underlying inode. If link() cannot
> perform the hard link properly, then it should report an error which
> it does not. Source and makefile are included to demonstrate the bug.
>
> source:
>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
> extern int errno;
>
> int main()
> {
> FILE* f = fopen("dummy", "w");
> fclose(f);
> char buff[1000];
> for (int i=0; i < 1050; ++i) {
> sprintf(buff, "%d", i);
> int err = link("dummy", buff);
> switch(err) {
> case 0:
> printf("no error: %d\n", i);
> break;
> case -1:
> printf("error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
> break;
> }
> }
> }
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