Meaning of 2nd column in file listing

[Mr_X]

I'm trying to make my own ftp server. I haven't any problems except to understand the meaning of the second column of this file listing.

drwxr-xr-x  14 Mister_X     ioftpd              0 Sep 06 18:17 Dir1
drwxr-xr-x   2 Mister_X     ioftpd              0 Jun 14 16:50 Dir2
drwxr-xr-x   7 Mister_X     ioftpd              0 Aug 12 14:58 Dir3
-rwxr-xr-x   0 Mister_X     ioftpd              0 Aug 16 15:48 File

What does these numbers represent (14, 2, 7 and 0) ?
0 mean that's a file but the others?

[Mouton]

No RFC defines the format of the data returned by LIST or STAT. The FTP server decides what it sends back on such commands.

The most used format is the format of the UNIX ls -l command, in which that number (2nd value) refers to the number of links to that file / directory.

Not sure how the ftp server count that...

[Syrinx]

Originally posted by Mr_X
I'm trying to make my own ftp server. I haven't any problems except to understand the meaning of the second column of this file listing.

drwxr-xr-x  14 Mister_X     ioftpd              0 Sep 06 18:17 Dir1
drwxr-xr-x   2 Mister_X     ioftpd              0 Jun 14 16:50 Dir2
drwxr-xr-x   7 Mister_X     ioftpd              0 Aug 12 14:58 Dir3
-rwxr-xr-x   0 Mister_X     ioftpd              0 Aug 16 15:48 File

What does these numbers represent (14, 2, 7 and 0) ?
0 mean that's a file but the others?

I guess 0 means it's a file or it's a directory in which nothing is inside.In the above case,it's a file(you can check the first column).

[darkone]

Yes, it shows number of files/directories. Only few daemons provide this information though - and way the provide it seems to vary.

On io, it is non recursive count of files/directories inside a directory (including '.' and '..')

File = 0
Empty directory = 2
Directory with something inside = 3