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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A couple questions
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Date: Thu, 7-May-87 01:20:24 EDT
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In article <634@boulder.Colorado.EDU> cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub) writes:
>actually, it is possible. you know the inode associated with the descriptor
>start at "/" and just keep looking for that i# keeping track of where you are.

This can find A name for the inode (assuming that there IS one and
that you avoid the many pitfalls that are possible), but not THE
name that was used to open the file.  (Even in the absence of more
than one link, a variety of names could have been used.)

You wouldn't want to wait for this anyway on some of the large
filesystems we have around here.