File name from file descriptor?

[Chris Gonnerman]

What OS?  Windows? Linux?

In general, you can't under most OS's.  In Linux 2.x you can poke around
in the /proc filesystem and maybe get it.

Why do you need to know?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carsten Gaebler" <clpy at snakefarm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 7:03 AM
Subject: File name from file descriptor?


> Hi there!
> 
> How can I determine a file's name if I only have the file descriptor?
> os.fdopen(fd).name just returns '(fdopen)'.
> 
> Regards
> Carsten.
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