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Subject: Re: vode to pathname
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"Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com> writes:
> So the question is, how do I get hold of pathname given
> vnode*/(inode, devno, generation no) -without relying on the name
> cache (on freebsd)?

You can't.  The semantics of Unix file systems are such that the
mapping from file name to file is one-way.  Furthermore, a file can be
associated with more than one file name, or even none at all (if it
has been unlinked but is still held open by a process).

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