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Re: [Bug-tar] TAR creates hard links or duplicated files inside archive


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] TAR creates hard links or duplicated files inside archive when using -T option
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:47:11 -0800
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On 11/05/2012 01:55 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> the indication for a hard link is a link count > 1.

No, it's typical to say that the link count counts
the number of hard links.  For example, the Wikipedia
entry for "Hard link" says that a hard link is
"a directory entry that associates a name with a file on a file system",
and this is consistent with the typical interpretation.




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