Re: How to get dentry from inode number?

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 29 July 2005 23:02:53 +0800, ?X?? wrote:
> 
> How can I get a full pathname from an inode number ?

That's fundamentally impossible to do.  Any given inode may have
multiple paths associated to it.  Think of hard links.

Jörn

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