On 2010-05-03, Baz Walter <[email protected]> wrote:
> i think what i'm asking for is a python function that, given, say, a
> valid file descriptor, can return the file's full path.
Firstly, a file may have any number of paths (including 0).
> would such a thing even be possible?
Yes. You have to search the filesystem and compare the descirptor's
inode number to that of every file in the filesystem. It will match 0
or more of them.
However, that will probably take a long time (many minutes) for a
typical "single partition" Unix filesystem. If you have a dedicated
filesystem with a small number of files, it may be feasible.
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