Re: inode number

Kurt Wall (kwall@kurtwerks.com)
Mon, 5 May 2003 23:54:50 -0400


An unnamed Administration source, Sumit Narayan, wrote:
% Hi,
%
% Actually, what I meant with this was, suppose I have a file name, how do I get the inode for that? And also suppose I have the inode number, how do I get the complete object of that inode for use and manipulation?

If you have a filename, stat(2); see also lstat(2) and fstat(2).

Kurt

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