Let's say I have a list of the opened files (actually, of the file numbers):
import resource
import fcntl
def get_open_fds():
fds = []
soft, hard = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)
for fd in range(3, soft):
try:
flags = fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFD)
except IOError:
continue
fds.append(fd)
return fds
Now I would like to get the names of those files. How can I do this?
Just to clarify, for those downvoting this: fd is an integer. It is NOT a filedescriptor. Sorry for confusing you with the name, but the code is self-explanatory.
I am getting flamed about this, I think because of my choice of fd
to mean file number. I just checked the documentation:
All functions in this module take a file descriptor fd as their first argument. This can be an integer file descriptor, such as returned by sys.stdin.fileno(), or a file object, such as sys.stdin itself, which provides a fileno() which returns a genuine file descriptor.
So fd
is indeed an integer. It can also be a file object but, in the general case, fd
has not .name
.
The getName() method is a part of File class. This function returns the Name of the given file object. The function returns a string object which contains the Name of the given file object.
A file object allows us to use, access and manipulate all the user accessible files. One can read and write any such files. When a file operation fails for an I/O-related reason, the exception IOError is raised.
As per this answer:
for fd in get_open_fds():
print fd, os.readlink('/proc/self/fd/%d' % fd)
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