Support st_nlink

Open Nikratio opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

SFTP does provide link counts, so we should use these numbers for st_nlink.

Jun 21 '17 22:06 Nikratio

It turns out that link count has been defined from https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-06, but https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-02 (protocol version 3) is still the most widely implemented one.

Back in 2016, Ryan Hunter sent a patch to @openssh providing an extension named [email protected] (see bug report), but unfortunately it was never accepted (or, apparently, considered).

So the sad state of things is that, much like inode support in #109, we cannot really have proper st_nlink support in sshfs.

Mar 27 '25 13:03 Shamar