you can for VDIR as the getcwd call does so, but not for VREG becasue you
don't know the directory entry that you used to get to it.
(You could look in the name cache using a reverse lookup, but I don't know
that you are guaranteed of success.) PHK may have more to say on this
topic.
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Dan Seguin wrote:
>
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> Hello Gurus,
>
>
> Is there any way of getting filepath information from a vnode? What I'm
> looking for is pathname info for VDIR and VREG types, sort of a reverse
> namei().
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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