hard links: how to tell with system call under BSD4.3?

[Jeremy J Starcher]

In article <1991May10.210452.28889 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
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>Check for the link count.  That will tell you how many names the file has.
>For a directory it should always be 2, one for the parent pointing to it and
>one for it's own "." file.

Hm.. not sure if our system is damaged or not, but all of a directories
children also have a link to the parent (..).  

I can tell how many branches there are by looking at the hardlink number
and subracting two.
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