[octave ] LOADPATH recurses only one level of subdirectories (on network drives)

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 2/14/2006 7:18 AM:
>>>
>>>The code checks for two links (the %h) given that a subdirectory should
>>>have a "." and a ".." entry.  But for some reason, network drives
>>>created using windows within cygwin report 1.
> 
> Because it is too expensive for cygwin to report an accurate link count
> (stat() of the remote dir would effectively have to stat every file in
> that dir to see how many subdirectories there were, which would be quite
> expensive over the network).

Following up on myself, more details about POSIX requirements on directory
link counts, and the implications to programs trying to optimize based on
link counts, can be found in this thread of the Austin group mailing list:
https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_archive.tpl?source=L&listname=austin-group-l&pagesize=10&first=1&searchstring=link+count&zone=F

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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