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Date:      Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:32:44 +1000 (EST)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        stesin@gu.net
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filename from open file descriptor...
Message-ID:  <199804130932.CAA14597@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413122102.12267v-100000@beast.gu.net> from "Andrew Stesin" at Apr 13, 98 12:22:58 pm

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In some mail from Andrew Stesin, sie said:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > 	I'm trying to debug some code, and have an open file descriptor
> > > that I want to find the file name that its associated with...
> > > 
> > > 	is this possible?  my first thought was fstat(), but that appears
> > > to return everything but the name :(
> > 
> > You remember the name when you open the file.
> 
> 	How about rename()-ing the already opened file "on the fly"?
> 	(Want to note that correct discovery of filename from the filedescriptor
> 	seems to be theoretically impossible?)

How about just installing and using lsof ?

Darren

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