vn_fullpath()

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Feb 20 15:27:16 PST 2005


On Sun, Feb 20, 2005, Igor Shmukler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has figured a way to make vn_fullpath() reliable?
> 
> Perhaps there is another approach to attacking this problem. Here is what I need
> to accomplish:
> 
> I need to be able to determine dynamic linker, shared libraries or executable
> name for a specific process.

You'd essentially need to write a full version of getcwd(3) in the
kernel.  This would be useful for a number of things, performance
and Linux emulation included.  You might take a look at how libc's
getcwd() works and take it from there.


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