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Simple as that. I have the file descriptor of an opened file, and I want to know the node name of the device which contain it.

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This can be made in an easy way using libudev and fstat.

#include <libudev.h>   // udev headers.
#include <sys/stat.h>  // for fstat function and stat struct.
#include <iostream>    // for printing ouput.
#include <fcntl>       // for open function.

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);  // The file can be opened using any other mode, Eg. O_RDWR, O_APPEND, etc...
    struct udev *udev = udev_new();
    struct stat tb;
    fstat(fd, &tb);
    struct udev_device* dev = udev_device_new_from_devnum(udev, 'b', tb.st_dev);
    cout << "The opened file is located in the device: " << udev_device_get_devnode(dev) << endl;
    return 0;
}
Raydel Miranda
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  • You don't check for errors on *any* of your function calls. This is not good example code. – nobody Jun 12 '14 at 18:17
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    I don´t check errors for make the example shorter. I desagree about not being a good example code, since it shows the path to follow to accomplish the objective which is obtain the device node. Is not a good piece of production code, but certainly is a good example. – Raydel Miranda Jun 12 '14 at 18:37