FILE Pointer

[Muthukumar Ratty]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:

> Hi Bharathi,
>
>  >How to get the filename from the filepointer?
>
> You cannot.


Actually, if it is Linux there is a way to find it (may be in *BSD too?).
First get the fd entry using "fileno", and then use that in "getdents" to
get the name.

Look at
1. fileno (3) and
2. getdents (2)

Muthu.



>
>  >What are the other informations we can get from FILE structure?
>
> feof(fp) -- tells you if the file is at the end of file
> ferror(fp) -- test whether read/write error has occurred
> ftell(fp) -- tells you the offset into the file
> fileno(fp) -- (non-ANSI) tells you the file descriptor of the fp
> fgetpos(fp, &pos) -- for noting positions, used in conjunction with fsetpos
>
> HTH,
> --Eljay
>