Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:27:17 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: sysfs regression: wrong link counts |
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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?
thanks,
greg k-h
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