How to detect hardlinks?
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Description
We would like to use dfind in combination with dwalk to find hardlinks.
The dfind command line tool does not provide this option as of now.
I am wondering how difficult it would be to add this feature?
As far as I can tell, dwalk uses stat to retrieve information about a file/directory which is used for some filters (gid, atime, etc).
Is the entire stat struct stored in the binary output of dwalk ? (the text output does not contain it)
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Research direction
Start with the dfind and dwalk command-line entry points, then inspect how stat metadata is collected and represented in dwalk's binary and text output. Define how hardlinks should be identified and exposed by dfind, and verify the behavior with the project's existing command-line checks; the issue names no specific files or tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100