Why num of hard links of directory is more than 1 in linux?

Question

I make a new dir in linux filesystem.

Why the num of hard links of this item is 2?

drwxr-xr-x 2 zuser zuser 4096 2013-12-12 19:00 newdir/

possible duplicate of [Regarding Hard Link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5829001/regarding-hard-link) — artless noise, Dec 17 '13 at 18:08

CL. · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-16T09:00:22.697

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An empty directory has two hard links to it, the normal entry in the parent directory, and the special directory entry ..

(The special directory entry .. increases the hard link count of the parent directory.)

edited Dec 16 '13 at 09:00

answered Dec 12 '13 at 12:07

CL.

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