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Re: Octave's fstat vs. statistics package fstat
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: Octave's fstat vs. statistics package fstat |
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Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:22:21 -0500 |
On 21-Dec-2010, Michael D Godfrey wrote:
| Not quite true. stat("file") requires the file name, but fstat(fid) requires
| a file descriptor. Is there a way of recovering the filename given the fid?
| I remember having a problem with this some time ago, but just used
| fstat to solve it.
When we deprecated fstat, we made stat(fid) work in addition to
stat(filename), but I guess we didn't update the docstring. Oops,
another thing to fix...
jwe