Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:08:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Numbers of links for directories
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Under Unix, the number of links for a directory is equal to the number of 
its subdirectories plus 2.  Our `stat' always reports 1 in this field.  
If people think that it's worthwhile to add such a feature, it is very 
easy to do: `stat' already finds all the subdirectories to report 
non-zero size for a directory.  So far I only saw this used by GNU 
Findutils during a recursive descent, to know there is no more 
subdirectories left, and the gain from using this didn't seem to be a 
large one, but since compatibility is the name of the game here...

Let me know what you think.