From: Tim Bray <tbray@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T01:44:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Get file by inode number?


On Jul 4, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Timo Hoepfner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there a way to retrieve a file's path by inode number? Basically  
> the opposite of:

In principle, this is may be a bad idea.  To start with, in *n*x  
filesystems, a file can have lots of different pathnames, via hard  
and soft links.  -Tim