* Tobias Reif (tobiasreif / pinkjuice.com) [020602 15:50]:
> If the link-count drops to 0, any disk blocks in the file are freed and 
> the i-node is de-allocated."

Correct, but not while there are open descriptors.  Implement it and
see.

> >and this information is not stored in
> >the inode entry.
> 
> It isn't?
> "[...] (the file's i-node ) contains the description of the file:
> [...]
> vi the number of links to the file, that is, the number of times it 
> appears in a directory"

The number of links, not the names (paths) of those links.

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