i am usign a perl script in which i try to find whether the direcory is leaf directory or not by seeing nlink value.
i do it by

$info = stat(".");
$nlink = $info->nlink;

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this will give me the value of nlink for that directory. now i test if that directory is leaf directory by doing
if ((($nlink == 3) && (-e "ROOT")) || $nlink == 2)
{
     $leafDir = 1;
}

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here ROOT is a directory which can be or can not be present in all test directories. so i test if nlink is three (3) and if that ROOT directory is present to see if the directory is leaf directory. if the ROOT is not present then i test if nlink is 2 ( for . and ..). this works fine with linux and solaris. but in cygwin i am not getting the same value of nlink as i m getting in linux.
what can i do to make this working in cygwin also. is there some other way by which i can do this job using nlink value.

Edited by planetscape - added code tags

In reply to finding a directory using perl in cygwin by Anonymous Monk

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