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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.