Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How can I get file name from a file descriptor? Message-ID: <10753@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 16 Aug 89 05:08:35 GMT References: <20614@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <20614@adm.BRL.MIL> Pabbisetty.henr@xerox.com (Nagesh Pabbisetty) writes: >If I hold the descriptor to a file, how can I find out the name of the file it points to? There need not be any name associated with the descriptor, or there may be several possible names by which one could access the same object. It sounds like you're trying to solve the wrong problem..