[patch] hard link protocol extension for sftp

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> Here's a patch that adds support for the creation of hard links over
> SFTP.
> 
> Hard links are not used very often nowdays, but they do still have
> their uses and this is currently the most often requested improvement
> for SSHFS.
> 
> To detect hard links the st_nlink, st_dev and st_ino attributes are
> usually used.  I'll also post patches adding extensions for these and
> other attributes.
> 
> Please consider adding these to the OpenSSH sftp-server/client
> implementations.  Comments are welcome.

Nice - could you please post this on https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/

-d