[PATCH] pathconf and XFS/Reiserfs link count

[Roland McGrath]

> How about moving the list to a file in /etc ? 

Someone would have to maintain that too.

> The current version doesn't even cover all file systems included in
> linux 2.4 that support hardlinks and for each new file system it'll need a 
> new patch too. And linux has plenty of new file systems in development.

I think the current situation is utterly disgusting.  The only thing that
makes any kind of sense to me is direct kernel support, and I can't fathom
why it wasn't done that way a long time ago.