Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Speaking of the low level, the classic UNIX file system doesn't make >> use of pathnames. Rather, the files are nameless. They are identified >> by the device (= file system) number plus the inode number. > > Not entirely fair. A file system has directories in it, which have > names in them referencing other inodes. So while you can get to the > contents of the file given only its inode, but the path names are very > much a part of the file system too.
Not all files have pathnames. Those that do have numerous pathnames. You can't tell by looking at a file what pathnames, if any, it might have. You need an exhaustive, recursive search of the file system for the reverse mapping. If you execute the commands: echo hello >hello rm hello You don't know for sure if the file you removed was the file you created on the previous line. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
