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Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor
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Yuri <yuri@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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