Re: wrong hardlink count for /proc/PID directories

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412222340540.475@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> You could try working around this by using -noleaf. (Which is by no means a 
> solution.)
> 
> Hm, I have 2.6.8+.9-rc2, and /proc/1 for example has a link count of 3 which 
> seems reasonable: ".", "fd" and "task".
> 

You're missing "attr", and you're not counting the directory entry
from below.

directory + "." + "attr/.." + "fd/.." + "task/.." = 5.

It should either return the correct value or set it to 1.

	-hpa
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