Re: sysfs regression: wrong link counts

[Alan Cox]

> Isn't there some other "proper" way of doing this in userspace, or is
> this really the correct way?

You can look at the S_IFMT bits and stuff however link count indicating
number of subdirectories is a standard Unix thing and used by many quite
mundane tools as an optimisation.

Alan
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