Hi Steve,
What I want is not the terminal name but to prove that fd 0 corresponds
to /dev/tty3 (say).
regards-
kaushal.
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:06, Steve Graegert wrote:
> On 4/14/05, kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> > Thanks for the response.But how will lsof work for a particular
> > PID.If
> > lsof can print all the files by their names then why can't any c
> > program?The idea was to prove that the file /dev/pts/9 or some no. is
> > opened by the bash and to it are the stdin,stdout and stderr
> > associated.For that ,the fds 0,1,and 2 are supposed to point to the same
> > file /dev/pts/9 or say /dev/tty3 ....
>
> OK, I understand. Now I know your intention. First of all, if you
> know bash's PID you should be able to find open FDs by using the /proc
> approach. To prove that FD 0, 1 and 2 (or any FD) is associated to a
> particular terminal you can use
>
> #include <unistd.h>
> char *ttyname(int fildes);
>
> Hope this is what you want.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> \Steve
>
> --
>
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>
> > This can be proved using lsof -p <PID OF THE BASH> .But how to prove
> > that from within a c program?This lead to the sol if we can get the
> > filename from the file descriptor and print it on the screen.
> >
> > regards-
> > kaushal.
> > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:07, Steve Graegert wrote:
> > > On 4/14/05, kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > How can I get the filename/pathname given the open file
> > > > descriptor?Does
> > > > fstat provide this feature internally?Can somebody give the code snippet
> > > > for this.
> > >
> > > There is no such thing. It is not possible to obtain a FD's filename
> > > reliably. Unless you are absolutely sure that this particular FD
> > > points to a file (or directory) and not to a socket, pipe or
> > > something similar, you will not be able to use fstat reliably. Which
> > > of stat's fields are suggesting to be helpful reagarding to your
> > > problem? st_ino? How would you locate a file based on its file ID?
> > > This would require scanning the complete file system (and probably
> > > more than one). Another problem is, that an FD might be associated
> > > with other files at the same time or files can be stored inside a
> > > directory that you can't read due to lack of sufficient permissions.
> > > What you are looking for is some kind of reverse lookup to unwind the
> > > many-to-one relationship of files and inodes.
> > >
> > > A couple of years ago Floyd Davidson suggested some code that may
> > > point you to the right direction (not tested):
> > >
> > > /* A demo program to locate file names related to an inode number */
> > >
> > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > #include <stdlib.h>
> > > #include <unistd.h>
> > > #include <string.h>
> > > #include <sys/stat.h>
> > > #include <dirent.h>
> > > #include <limits.h>
> > >
> > > void scan_list(char *curdir, struct dirent **ptr_nl, int dirs);
> > > int file_select(const struct dirent *nl);
> > >
> > > ino_t inode;
> > > char curdir[PATH_MAX] = "."; /* default search directory */
> > >
> > > int
> > > main(int argc, char **argv)
> > > {
> > > struct dirent **namelist;
> > > struct stat st;
> > >
> > > if (argc < 2 || argc > 3) {
> > > fprintf(stderr,"usage: %s inode [directory]\n", argv[0]);
> > > exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> > > }
> > > inode = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 10);
> > > if (!inode) {
> > > fprintf(stderr,"Error: invalid inode\n");
> > > exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> > > }
> > > if (argc == 3 && !lstat(argv[2], &st) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
> > > strcpy(curdir, argv[2]);
> > > }
> > >
> > > scan_list(curdir, namelist,
> > > scandir(curdir, &namelist, file_select, alphasort));
> > > return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> > > }
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * returns 1 for directories, otherwise 0
> > > * and displays any filename which matches inode.
> > > */
> > > int
> > > file_select(const struct dirent *nl)
> > > {
> > > struct stat st;
> > > char curfile[PATH_MAX];
> > >
> > > sprintf(curfile, "%s/%s", curdir, nl->d_name);
> > > if (0 == lstat(curfile, &st)) {
> > > /* report a matching inode number */
> > > if (st.st_ino == inode) {
> > > printf(" %6lu %-20s \n", (unsigned long) st.st_ino, curfile);
> > > }
> > > /* skip these directories */
> > > if (!strcmp(nl->d_name, ".") || !strcmp(nl->d_name, "..")) {
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > > /* otherwise list all directories */
> > > if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
> > > return 1;
> > > }
> > > } return 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > > /* descend through all directories */
> > > void
> > > scan_list(char *olddir, struct dirent **ptr_nl, int dirs)
> > > {
> > > char savedir[PATH_MAX];
> > > int i;
> > > struct dirent **namelist;
> > >
> > > if (dirs > 0) {
> > > for (i = 0; i < dirs; ++i) {
> > > strcpy(savedir, curdir);
> > > sprintf(curdir,"%s/%s", olddir, ptr_nl[i]->d_name);
> > > scan_list(curdir, namelist,
> > > scandir(curdir, &namelist, file_select, alphasort));
> > > strcpy(curdir, savedir);
> > > }
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > /* End of demo program */
> > >
> > > Kind Regards
> > >
> > > \Steve
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Steve Graegert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Independent Software Consultant {C/C++ && Java && .NET}
> > > Mobile: +49 (176) 21 24 88 69
> > > Office: +49 (9131) 71 26 40 9
> >
> >
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