# std::experimental::filesystem::hard_link_count

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Defined in header `<experimental/filesystem>` |  |
std::uintmax_t hard_link_count( const path& p ); std::uintmax_t hard_link_count( const path& p, error_code& ec ); | (1) | (filesystem TS)

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

The overload that does not take a `error_code&` parameter throws filesystem_error on underlying OS API errors, constructed with `p` as the first argument and the OS error code as the error code argument. std::bad_alloc may be thrown if memory allocation fails. The overload taking a `error_code&` parameter sets it to the OS API error code if an OS API call fails, and executes ec.clear() if no errors occur. This overload has
`noexcept` specification:
noexcept

### Example

Run this code

    #include <iostream>
    #include <experimental/filesystem>
    namespace fs = std::experimental::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 parent
        std::cout << "Number of hard links for .. is "
                  << fs::hard_link_count(p) << '\n';
    }

Output:

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

### See also

create_hard_link | creates a hard link (function)

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