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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:59:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Dan Seguin <dseg@texar.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Vnodes and Pathnames
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911151258390.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911151514580.48510-100000@pak2.texar.com>

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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Dan Seguin wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello Gurus, 
> 
> 
> Is there any way of getting filepath information from a vnode? What I'm
> looking for is pathname info for VDIR and VREG types, sort of a reverse
> namei().

It's really not possible since a file may have mutiple parent directories.

There were some discussions on the lists in the last 30 days that went
into greater detail.

-Alfred



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