On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 06:34:32PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Basically, it's about exposing d_path() to userland. Patch below should do
> the job, modulo actual adding sys_fd2path into the tables. BTW, I suspect
> that we really ought to stop this " (removed)" thing, even in procfs
> symlinks - too ambiguos and can be done better (e.g. something in ->i_mode
> of the link). Comments?
It is already implemented I think:
sprintf(buf, "/proc/self/fd/%d", fd);
readlink(buf, yourbuf, size);
Just for sockets and pipes it does do stupid things currently.
-Andi
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