std::filesystem::hard_link_count

 

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Defined in header <filesystem>
std::uintmax_t hard_link_count(conststd::filesystem::path& p );	(1)	(since C++17)
std::uintmax_t hard_link_count(conststd::filesystem::path& p,                                 std::error_code& ec )noexcept;	(2)	(since C++17)

Returns the number of hard links for the filesystem object identified by path p.

The non-throwing overload returns static_cast<uintmax_t>(-1) on errors.

Parameters

p	-	path to examine
ec	-	out-parameter for error reporting in the non-throwing overload

Return value

The number of hard links for p.

Exceptions

Any overload not marked noexcept may throw std::bad_alloc if memory allocation fails.

1) Throws std::filesystem::filesystem_error on underlying OS API errors, constructed with p as the first path argument and the OS error code as the error code argument.

2) Sets a std::error_code& parameter to the OS API error code if an OS API call fails, and executes ec.clear() if no errors occur.

Example

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#include <filesystem>#include <iostream>namespace fs = std::filesystem;   int main(){// On a POSIX-style filesystem, each directory has at least 2 hard links:// itself and the special member pathname "." fs::path p = fs::current_path();std::cout<<"Number of hard links for current path is "<< fs::hard_link_count(p)<<'\n';   // Each ".." is a hard link to the parent directory, so the total number// of hard links for any directory is 2 plus number of direct subdirectories p = fs::current_path()/"..";// Each dot-dot is a hard link to parentstd::cout<<"Number of hard links for .. is "<< fs::hard_link_count(p)<<'\n';}

Possible output:

Number of hard links for current path is 2 Number of hard links for .. is 3

See also

create_hard_link (C++17)	creates a hard link (function)
hard_link_count	returns the number of hard links referring to the file to which the directory entry refers (public member function of std::filesystem::directory_entry)