Re: How to get full pathname from an inode?

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Omen Wild  wrote:
>Another question.  I am trying to build up the full path name of a file
>from the inode_permission hook.  I have an inode, how do I get the full
>path (including walking over any mount points) from that inode?

Mu.  As far as I know, you can't.  I don't think there is any well-defined
answer.  There could be multiple paths that point to the same inode.

Out of curiousity, why do you want the path name?
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