/me sighs: NQP is still so poorly documented!

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Brent Laabs <bsla...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This works without a module on Rakudo:
>
> use nqp;
> my $path = "foo".IO;
> my $hardlink-count =  nqp::stat($path.absolute, nqp::const::STAT_PLATFORM_
> NLINKS);
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> > On 29 May 2017, at 10:42, Fernando Santagata <nando.santag...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > The three files are already hard-linked, no need for soft links.
>> >
>> > BTW, is there a way to detect hard links in Perl6?
>> > Perl5 "stat" operator returns an array whose fourth element is the
>> number of hard links of a file, but I don't see anything like that in the
>> Perl6 docs.
>>
>> Generally, unixisms are not directly supported in Perl 6 in the core.  It
>> should be relatively trivial to create an ecosystem module for this using
>> NativeCall directly accessing functionality in libc (which then of course
>> won’t work on Windows).
>>
>>
>> Liz
>
>
>


-- 
Fernando Santagata

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