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From: dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: how can I get filename from file descriptor?
Message-ID: <1586@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 89 13:07:09 GMT
References: <19208@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <19208@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
: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

:In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)

You also need to take into account actions on the fd itself, such as
unlink(fileno(fd)).

Greg Pasquariello
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