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    SubjectRe: sysfs regression: wrong link counts
    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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