Confused about a file with no links
Joe Smith
jes at mbio.med.upenn.edu
Sun Jul 15 10:00:05 AEST 1990
In trying to snoop on a process doing (apparently) nothing, I found this:
$ /usr/etc/pstat -i | awk 'NR==2 || $7 == 0'
ILOC IFLAG IDEVICE INO MODE NLK UID SIZE/DEV VFLAG CNT SHC EXC TYPE
f0b8f90 R 7, 0 1765 100600 0 131 247 1 0 0 VREG
As the 'NLK' field is supposed to be the number of links to the file (and
NLK agrees with ls for other files which I could find directory entries
for) I am curious as to what a file with no links is and what conditions
create them.
Joe Smith
University of Pennsylvania jes at mbio.med.upenn.edu
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics (215) 898-8348
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059
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