From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: patch to winsup981020: link count for directories
24 Oct 1998 18:39:18 -0700
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
        cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 06:50:36PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>In syscalls.cc the function `num_entries()' is only used,
>to count links to directories. Unfortunately, the link
>count is made from a count of _all_ entries in the
>directory. If this function would count only the entries,
>which are also directories, the link count would be
>correct. This leads to the following patch.
>
>Regards,
>Corinna
>
>--- syscalls.cc.orig    Fri Oct 23 09:39:59 1998
>+++ syscalls.cc Sat Oct 24 17:22:59 1998
>@@ -1172,7 +1172,8 @@ num_entries (const char *win32_name)
>   count ++;
>   while (FindNextFileA (handle, &buf))
>     {
>-      count ++;
>+      if ((buf.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) != 0)
>+        count ++;
>     }
>   FindClose (handle);
>   return count;

I can't believe that no one has noticed this before!

Applied.

cgf