Re: list of open descriptors

[Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike -

On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 23:26:31 -0700 (PDT), Mike Krebs
<majkrebs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is not a direct way of getting from an open descriptor to a file name. The fstat procedure can use file descriptors and will return inode but there is no index on inode (inode apparently being a unique entry to a file) to find the file name. A dump of the fstat information by directory could be used to create an indexed file on inode. 

With hard links, a given inode can have more than one file name (or no
file name if all of the files have been deleted but the inode still
exists because it is still in use).  That's why the file information
contains the inode, but not vice versa.

Ken
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