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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: A better perror() (Was: Re: Accessing argc ...)
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 15:19:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 15:19:32 1987
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wendt@arizona.edu (Alan Lee Wendt) writes:
> Another problem with error reporting on Unix is that there's no way
> that I know of to translate open file id's back into filenames.

Basically, because there is no such translation.  You've got an i-node
open, and it may have many names.  The name you opened it under may
not even exist anymore!  (What happens if you've got the file open,
and *all* links to the i-node are deleted?)

Dale

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