Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:43:50 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: sysfs regression: wrong link counts |
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:27:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:10:59PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Isn't there some other "proper" way of doing this in userspace, or is > > > this really the correct way? > > > > You can look at the S_IFMT bits and stuff however link count indicating > > number of subdirectories is a standard Unix thing and used by many quite > > mundane tools as an optimisation. > > Ah, yeah, that is easier. > > Eric, care to fix this or want me to revert it?
Fix _what_? Userland shite quoted upthread? Because that's where the bug is - the mundane tools mentioned by Alan treat 1 in st_nlink as "no information about the number of subdirectories". And shite might be too mild a term for the little gem in question, really...
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