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Re: Directory link count wrapping on Linux/XFS/i386?

To: David Malone <dwmalone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Directory link count wrapping on Linux/XFS/i386?
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:23:49 +0200 (MEST)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>but it does let you can hide files from find/fts, as demonstrated
>below.

That's because `find` optimizes its searching by looking at the link count.
IIRC, the -noleaf option should make it visible again.

>turing 7% mkdir .hidden
>turing 8% touch .hidden/secret
>turing 9% find . -name secret -print



Jan Engelhardt
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