Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: st_nlink is not related to the number of messages in a folder. It is a number of hard links.
If the filesystem supports hard links counting for directories, every directory (except /) has at least two links: one from its parent directory, and one from itself (via "."). Every subdirectory adds yet one hard link via "..". Non-directory files don't create hard links. Typical mail folder can contain thousands of messages and none or only a few subfolders. Subfolders (if there are any) usually are created before messages and hence encountered first in directory listing. Hereby the optimization can have significant effect. If there is a real case when st_nlink != 1 and is less then a number of subdirectories + 2, we should consider removing the optimization. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7759> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
