GNU bug report logs - #49335
v.8.32 - stat(1) | Symbolic link interpreted as hard link

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 16:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: v.8.32 - stat(1) | Symbolic link interpreted as hard link
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 19:32:58 +0300

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Hello, symbolic link counted as hard link. To reproduce:

$ touch t; ln -sr t l; stat -c '%i %h %n %F' t l
4172493 1 t regular empty file
4172494 1 l symbolic link

'%h' reports *1* despite no hard link is involved. Isn't rather *0*
expected?

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