Re: inode open

Subject:	Re: inode open
From:	Matt Thomas <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:48:30 UTC
Newsgroups:	fa.netbsd.tech.kern




On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:15 AM, Adam Burkepile wrote:

Is there an open function that will open a file based on its inodenumber instead of a path?
Or equivalently, a function to convert an inode to a path soregular open can open it?

Besides the fhopen(2) previously mentioned, this isn't availablebecause it would break the security used by unix.

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