information on identifying hard links to a file

[Paul Slootman]

On Thu 09 Feb 2006, yogesh kulkarni wrote:

>        Am presently working on rsync and would like to know
>        how does rsync identify hardlinks.I have gone through 
>        the hlink.c file and have not really understood the 
>        flow presented in the function.If anyone can provide 
>        some more info on this please inform me.

It does it the same way any application does:

compare inode and device number. When those are the same, the two files
must be hardlinked.


Paul Slootman