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NiLuJe · 09-18-2019, 09:57 PM

That's a rather large hammer to hit an annoying nail with, but I haven't got any better idea ^^.

That looks sound at first glance, but I'll take a closer look at it tomorrow

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EDIT: Huh. I was wondering about the whole fd -> path mapping, turns out getting the path from a (dir) fd is a fun game...
Short of checking what /proc/self/fd/%d points to, nothing really comes to mind... Which is somewhat iffy, so, eh, building a cache from opendir looks like a solid approach

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09-18-2019, 09:57 PM	#3
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	That's a rather large hammer to hit an annoying nail with, but I haven't got any better idea ^^. That looks sound at first glance, but I'll take a closer look at it tomorrow . ---- EDIT: Huh. I was wondering about the whole fd -> path mapping, turns out getting the path from a (dir) fd is a fun game... Short of checking what /proc/self/fd/%d points to, nothing really comes to mind... Which is somewhat iffy, so, eh, building a cache from opendir looks like a solid approach . Last edited by NiLuJe; 09-18-2019 at 10:17 PM.