Re: How to get full pathname from an inode?

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* Omen Wild (Omen.Wildat_private) wrote:
> I have an inode, how do I get the full path (including walking over
> any mount points) from that inode?

The short answer is, you can't.  There is nothing that guarantees a
single canonical path to an inode.  Think hard links, multiple mount
points, and bind mounts.

thanks,
-chris
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