From: wozzle!alane AT imageek DOT york DOT cuny DOT edu
Subject: Re: Library problems
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 09:05:48 -0400 (EDT)

> Maybe I'm missing something here.  Truename takes as argument a
> filename, with no path attached, right?  But fstat() doesn't have a
> filename.  All it has is a handle, which is an integer.  Somewhere in
> the bowels of DOS, that number corresponds to an open file, whose name
> (including path) we need if we want to call stat().

I was just looking to solve the immediate problem. I didn't read the
post fully :( I think the only way to get back to a name from the fd
is if the runtime keeps track; AFAIK, DOS doesn't know.

-- 
J. Alan Eldridge (alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org)