On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:15:31PM +1100, psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Irrelevant. The statement was ... > > Sorry, you misunderstood, that was not the statement. Here is the statement I replied to: >> The link count of a files tells you the number of hard links that >> are persisted within the same filesystem. It is _NOT_ a promise >> that there are no other means to access the inode of the file. > > It used to be promise before /proc was mounted I do not really care about the other arguments in the thread. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences ---------------------------------------------------------