From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: Link count] Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:19:44 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033183753 12960 127.0.0.1 (28 Sep 2002 03:29:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 03:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17v8I3-0003Mn-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 05:29:11 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17v90Z-0007TG-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 06:15:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17v8IE-00048l-00; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:29:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17v89P-0003H1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17v88u-0003Bo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17v88u-0003Bi-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 17v88u-00031F-00; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:19:44 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8210 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8210 Is there anyone who wants to look at this? ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Envelope-to: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Delivery-date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:42:44 -0400 From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" To: Subject: Link count Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:43:56 +0100 Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: 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. - --- 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/ ------- End of forwarded message -------