There is an incombatibility between Linux and Mac OS X concerning st_nlink of

directories. Mac OS X counts all files inside the directory, while Linux counts
only the subdirectories.

Changed the examples to follow Linux, but in general it should be harmless.

[thanks to Jim Wilcoxson for spotting it]


git-svn-id: http://fusepy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@19 1ebed218-b0a3-11dd-8075-91d349ce83ee

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fuse.py b/fuse.py
index 4897e1d..9f7a99b 100644
--- a/fuse.py
+++ b/fuse.py
@@ -475,7 +475,11 @@ class Operations:
     def getattr(self, path, fh=None):
         """Returns a dictionary with keys identical to the stat C structure
            of stat(2).
-           st_atime, st_mtime and st_ctime should be floats."""
+           st_atime, st_mtime and st_ctime should be floats.
+           NOTE: There is an incombatibility between Linux and Mac OS X concerning
+           st_nlink of directories. Mac OS X counts all files inside the directory,
+           while Linux counts only the subdirectories."""
+        
         if path != '/':
             raise OSError(ENOENT, '')
         return dict(st_mode=(S_IFDIR | 0755), st_nlink=2)