On 11/05/2012 01:55 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > the indication for a hard link is a link count > 1.
No, it's typical to say that the link count counts the number of hard links. For example, the Wikipedia entry for "Hard link" says that a hard link is "a directory entry that associates a name with a file on a file system", and this is consistent with the typical interpretation.
