Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!xadmx!Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL From: Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: how can I get filename from file descriptor? Message-ID: <20721@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 28 Aug 89 14:11:22 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 8 Perry Hutchison writes: > Granted that now and then the saved name may no longer be accurate, > I still think that it would be more user-helpful than no info at all. NO! NO! NO! ***NO*** We don't need any more functions that return accurate information *most* of the time. That way lies madness.