how can I get filename from file descriptor?
Chris Torek
chris at mimsy.UUCP
Tue Aug 22 23:17:12 AEST 1989
In article <20482 at sequent.UUCP> paulr at sequent.UUCP (Paul Reger) writes:
>What I mean is this ...
>Have the FILE structure have a name field in it:
> char *name;
>then when the fopen() call is made, have it fill in the field ....
This is all well and good, but you will have to define what happens
when you ask for the name of stdin, stdout, stderr, or a file opened
with fdopen. (Also, but rather incidentally, I am not terribly thrilled
with the idea of fopen having to call getwd.)
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