How can I tell if a file-system path is a hard link with Node.js? The function fs.lstat gives a stats object that, when given a hard link will return true for stats.isDirectory() and stats.isFile() respectively. fs.lstat doesn't offer up anything to note the difference between a normal file or directory and a linked one.
If my understanding of how linking (ln) works is correct, then a linked file points to the same place on the disk as the original file. This would mean that both the original and linked version are identical, and there is no way to tell the difference between the original file and the linked.
The functionality I'm looking for is as follows:
This is hypothetical pseudo-code for demonstration & communication purposes.
fs.writeFileSync('./file.txt', 'hello world')
fs.linkSync('./file.txt', './link.txt')
fs.isLinkSync('./file.txt') // => false
fs.isLinkSync('./link.txt') // => true
fs.linkChildrenSync('./file.txt') // => ['./link.txt']
fs.linkChildrenSync('./link.txt') // => []
fs.linkParentSync('./link.txt') // => './file.txt'
fs.linkParentSync('./file.txt') // => null