Re: How to get full pathname from an inode?

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Omen.Wildat_private

Quoting Valdis.Kletnieksat_private <Valdis.Kletnieksat_private> on Thu, Jul 24 13:10:
>
> You mean *A* full path name.
> 
> % cd /tmp
> % mkdir a b
> % touch a/foo   
> % ln a/foo b/bar
> % ls -li a/foo b/bar
>  113549 -rw-r--r--    2 valdis   valdis          0 Jul 24 13:08 a/foo
>  113549 -rw-r--r--    2 valdis   valdis          0 Jul 24 13:08 b/bar
> 
> What does a lookup of inode 113549 return? /tmp/a/foo, or /tmp/b/bar?

Hmmm, does that mean I need to check each of the inodes in the d_alias
list?  No, that can not be correct because it is the same inode.  

Thanks for pointing this out, I will have to give it more thought.

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