Returning the path of a file

Darren New dnew at san.rr.com
Sun Jan 7 12:59:11 EST 2001


> What I want to add - in general it's simply not possible to do better
> than that. For instance, on Unix a file can have multiple filenames
> because of linking. Or maybe someone is changing the directory structure
> while you have the file open. Maybe the file is not actually a file on
> the harddisk, but some device.

And in Unix, the file may not even have a name at all any more, if it has
been deleted after it was opened.

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Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc.
San Diego, CA, USA (PST).  Cryptokeys on demand.



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