Getting the pathname from a FILE*.

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <1645 at osiris.UUCP> by guest at osiris.UUCP (Guest account):
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| It almost seems to me that this is a case which stdio is not designed to
| handle. So - I'd say add another level of indirection. Write a routine
| that acts like fopen() - and one that acts like fclose(), etc. Have it
| store the name someplace, using only the "standard" interface to stdio,
| and then write another routine, or macro, that allows you to get the
| information back. I can't imagine that would be hard, and I expect it
| will work a LOT faster than reading your file system.
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But it won't work in the case of stdin, stdout, stderr -- which are
implicitly fdopen()'ed from fd's 0, 1, and 2.  And stdin is usually the one
you want the name for.

++Brandon
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