From: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:11:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <690CA8D0-81D6-11D8-913F-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040329132800.GA7384@DervishD>
On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 08:28 AM, DervishD wrote:
> Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu> dixit:
>> Adding any subdirectories or files to it seems to increase the number
>> of links it has.
>
> Not under Linux, at least, although it may depend on the
> filesystem type. For ext3, only subdirs increase the number of links
> of a directory.
>
>> Or is this hard-link policy not true on all systems?
>
> I have not tested in many systems, but Linux don't do it, and
> I've not found any standard that require files to be links on the
> directory. If you find any, please tell me to report the current
> behaviour as a bug to Linux kernel developers, but looking at
> findutils sources (that being GNU are intended to be very portable),
> you can see the following:
I'm on OS X, so it may be a peculiarity of HFS+.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-29 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-28 7:00 Aaron Davies
2004-03-28 19:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-28 20:13 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-28 20:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-28 23:55 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-29 0:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-29 6:05 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-28 19:49 ` DervishD
2004-03-29 6:03 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-29 13:28 ` DervishD
2004-03-29 15:19 ` Danek Duvall
2004-03-29 15:57 ` DervishD
2004-03-29 23:11 ` Aaron Davies [this message]
2004-03-29 23:24 ` DervishD
2004-03-31 1:44 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-31 8:44 ` DervishD
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