Re: how to get the file name

On 2006-01-06, Tim Keck <timkeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> only has the FILE * handle , how to get the file name ?
>>
>> You cannot.
>> Remember the filename when you opened it, if you can.
>>
>> (though linux has some not always reliable way, get the
>> filedescriptor with the fileno() function , call the readlink
>> function on the /proc/self/fd/<fd> fd file. Do a ls -l
>> /proc/self/fd to see what it's about)
>
> One of the beauties of the design is that there is a many to one
> relationship between directory entries and files, so a given file may
> have many names.

Or none.

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