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

From: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh_at_linux01.gwdg.de)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:23:49 +0200 (MEST)
    To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
    
    

    >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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