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Cc: freebsd@dreamchaser.org, dteske@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: hard link identification
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On May 22, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:

>=20
> <dteske@freebsd.org> wrote;
>>=20
>> For directories, the link-count is quite obviously the number of filesys=
tem
>> entities contained within.
>=20
> That is *INCORRECT*.

Details.

The OP wanted to know about files. I chose to not elaborate on the director=
y-case of the value (as it was not important to the OP).
--=20
Devin

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