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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:36:05PM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
>
> > They're hard links (you'll have to look that one up). A little known
> > aspect of the output of ls -al is that it lists the number of hard links
> > to a file, and directories (almost) always have >=2, because one is the
>
> I realise that this is off topic for hating (and I will be hated by some
> for this) but when doesn't a directory have a hard link count >= 2?
> [on a filing system that doesn't cause all directories to report a link count
> of 1, as I believe is the case for most Unix mounted CDs]
>
> .. of / is a link to itself, so it is always >= 2, and that's the obvious one
> covered.
Truthfully, I only threw in the 'almost' because I expected that without
it someone would pipe that on Plan 9 using filesystem from_mars the
poobah special device is basically a directory but only has on hard
link.
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