Hard Links

[Alan Bateman]

Scott Palmer wrote:
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> There are many cases where you would want to break hard links when you need to make changes to a file (some sort of copy-on-write semantics), but you can't code it if you don't know if the file is linked.  I see the isSymbolicLink method, but nothing similar for hard links.
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> Scott
The API doesn't have a method specifically for this but our 
implementation can return the number of links with 
Files.getAttribute(path, "unix:nlink").

-Alan.