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by **Jesse Marli** » Tue, 18 Dec 2001 02:32:41

Is there a portable way to get a filename from a file descriptor?

by **Paul Pluzhniko** » Tue, 18 Dec 2001 02:59:53

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> Is there a portable way to get a filename from a file descriptor?

No. There may not even be any name for a file descriptor:
think socket, pipe, terminal ...

by **Logan Sh** » Tue, 18 Dec 2001 03:49:37

>> Is there a portable way to get a filename from a file descriptor?

>No. There may not even be any name for a file descriptor:
>think socket, pipe, terminal ...

..., file that's still open after someone called unlink() ...

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by **-wisegu** » Tue, 18 Dec 2001 03:53:08

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> Is there a portable way to get a filename from a file descriptor?

I don't believe so...Once you have the file descriptor you shouldn't need the
filename. Obviously, you had the filename when you opened the descriptor,
right?

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by **Jesse Marli** » Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:26:30

> > Is there a portable way to get a filename from a file descriptor?

> No. There may not even be any name for a file descriptor:
> think socket, pipe, terminal ...

Right. I was thinking if something was available it would be NULL
for pipes, sockets, etc. Thanks for the confirmation.

by **Jesse Marli** » Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:27:48

> > Is there a portable way to get a filename from a file descriptor?

> I don't believe so...Once you have the file descriptor you shouldn't need the
> filename. Obviously, you had the filename when you opened the descriptor,
> right?

Yeah. This was to avoid changing a protoype for a function.

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by **Frank Pilhof** » Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:52:06

> Is there a portable way to get a filename from a file descriptor?

fstat ?

Frank

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