>Its worse than that -- unless the reference is in kernel memory, there 
>is no reference on disk that goes backwards from inode to path name.  
>find (see below) is about the only way that is guaranteed to work -- and 
>of course that only finds inodes that actually *have* an active 
>pathname.  (unlink(2) is sometimes used to leave a scratch file without 
>a name in the filesystem.)
>

Except for directories, of course (there is sufficient information to get
from the inode number to the pathname)

Casper

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