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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: how can I get filename from file descriptor?
Message-ID: <19208@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 89 13:17:12 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <20482@sequent.UUCP> paulr@sequent.UUCP (Paul Reger) writes:
>What I mean is this ...
>Have the FILE structure have a name field in it:
>    char *name;
>then when the fopen() call is made, have it fill in the field ....

This is all well and good, but you will have to define what happens
when you ask for the name of stdin, stdout, stderr, or a file opened
with fdopen.  (Also, but rather incidentally, I am not terribly thrilled 
with the idea of fopen having to call getwd.)
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