Re: vode to pathname
From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 08/24/05
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To: kamalp@acm.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:54:08 +0200
"Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com> writes:
> So the question is, how do I get hold of pathname given
> vnode*/(inode, devno, generation no) -without relying on the name
> cache (on freebsd)?
You can't. The semantics of Unix file systems are such that the
mapping from file name to file is one-way. Furthermore, a file can be
associated with more than one file name, or even none at all (if it
has been unlinked but is still held open by a process).
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