Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!hnij@bnl From: hnij%bnl@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: file descriptors --> filenames Message-ID: <16844@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 03:22:39 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16844 Posted: Sun Feb 19 03:22:39 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 07:52:50 EST Lines: 8 I am trying to convert a program that runs on the RSX operating system to run on UNIX, and have found a few system calls that UNIX does not support. One is the "getnam" function, which returns the filename associated with a given file desciptor. Is there any equivalent in UNIX? I thought there was, but after looking through the unix manuals, I can't find any. John Labovitz