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

[Bill Shirley]

In article <1344 at VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>, r3jjs at VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher) writes:
|> In article <1991May10.210452.28889 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
|> >
|> >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 an
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					at least

|> >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 (..).  

this is *definately* how it should be !!

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