link count wrong for pseudo-dirs (?); find gets confused

[Linda A. Walsh]

Eric Blake asked:

...

>>   I also get different numbers of subdirectories when I list
>>"/" than what the "link" count says and a third number if I list
>>using "cygpath -w":
>>
>>$ ls -ldF /
>>drwxr-x---  31 law 0 Dec 31  1969 // ## 31 links
>>
>>$ cmd /c dir |grep DIR|wc -l        24                         ## 24
>>dirs seen by windows
>>    24
>>    
>>
>
>Was this run in /?
>  
>
Yes.

linda





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