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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2012 13:12:01 -0700
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        freebsd@dreamchaser.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hard link identification
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On 22 May 2012 13:06, Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> wrote:
> Is there any way to tell if something is a hard link, other than
> =C2=A0ls -i of relevant files and seeing that the inode is the same?
> or a better way?

Hard links are not special. You can't tell something is a "hard link"
because normal files are exactly the same. You can use stat(1) to see
how many hard links point to a file though.


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Eitan Adler



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