* [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: Link count]
@ 2002-09-28 3:19 Richard Stallman
2002-09-28 15:04 ` Jason Rumney
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-09-28 3:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
Is there anyone who wants to look at this?
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From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk>
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Subject: Link count
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:43:56 +0100
Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
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In GNU Emacs 21.2.90.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381)
of 2002-06-06 on CENTAUR
configured using `configure --with-msvc (11.00)'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENG
locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
The functions file-attributes and directory-files-and-attributes both report
the link count as 1 for a file that has a link count of 2. Hence ls-lisp
displays the wrong link count, whereas Cygwin ls displays the correct link
count. The current release of Emacs (installed as a binary package and not
built by me) on Windows XP Home shows exactly the same behaviour. In both
cases the files in question were on an NTFS partition.
I believe that at one time the link count was shown correctly, but I don't
know when it changed. I suspect it's a generic problem on the Windows NT
platform line.
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Dr Francis J. Wright
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary
University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
Tel: 020 7882 5453 (direct); Fax: 020 8981 9587 (dept.)
F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk; http://centaur.maths.qmul.ac.uk/
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* Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: Link count]
2002-09-28 3:19 [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: Link count] Richard Stallman
@ 2002-09-28 15:04 ` Jason Rumney
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From: Jason Rumney @ 2002-09-28 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Is there anyone who wants to look at this?
I think Eli already replied. The "links" in this case are not
a feature of the filesystem, they are layered on top by Cygwin, so
only tools that link with the Cygwin libraries recognize them.
> The functions file-attributes and directory-files-and-attributes both report
> the link count as 1 for a file that has a link count of 2. Hence ls-lisp
> displays the wrong link count, whereas Cygwin ls displays the correct link
> count.
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