Re: mutt's buffy-list

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:49:13PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I could fake it I guess, but programs really have no business making
>     assumptions about directories based on their st_nlinks or st_size
>     fields.

At least nlinks == 2 is a hard-coded assumption for leaf directories in
various programs like find(1). You don't have to change the link count
for every file create/destroy, only directories.

Joerg