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File name from file descriptor?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Fri Jun 22 10:53:27 EDT 2001 
In article <mailman.993214715.7011.python-list at python.org>, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:

>Just for information, on some OS's several file names can point to the same 
>file on the disk (on Unix, for instance). In some cases, I that it is 
>possible to have a pseudo file without a true name (I think standard input 
>is one example, but I'm not sure about the details).

Under Unix/Linux, it's also possible to have a "real" file (as
in an inode and disk space), with no name.

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