How to get filename of an open file descriptor
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Wed Nov 14 01:58:14 PST 2007
Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> writes:
> But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that
> needs to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need some
> solution now.
You can not reliably obtain a file name from a file descriptor. The
best you can hope for is to find a file name that resolves to the vnode
that the file descriptor is associated with. The file name you find (if
you do - there is no guarantee) may or may not be the name by which the
file was opened.
DES
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