On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 00:14, Alan Corey wrote: > Is there a way to get the name of a file that's open when all you've > got is a file descriptor? > > I'm working on porting something, that I didn't write. with directories > full of source. I'm seeing a problem with an ioctl being the wrong type, > but I'm looking at the code where it happens, I can't see what the file > descriptor passed in is pointing to. Seems like there should be a way.
If you ktrace the process, you can look back to see how the fd is created.
