How do you find the symbolic links to files.

Jon Brawn jonb at specialix.co.uk
Thu Dec 13 04:48:07 AEST 1990


brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>No! This is what Tom said, and it is entirely wrong. On a BSD system the
>right strategy is #2: do what's necessary to restore st_blocks. A
>program can reasonably depend on that information, so an archiver that
>doesn't restore st_blocks is buggy.

(This isn't a flame, I'm quite serious now!)
Can anyone think up a good use for looking at the st_blocks field?
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