[comp.unix.misc] How to get device information from a file descriptor ?

Ninane@fynu.ucl.ac.be (Alain Ninane - FYNU) (06/03/91)

Dear all of you,
Given a valid file descriptor [from an open(2) call], is there a
standard way to know whether or not this fd points to a specific
special file/device (major number only) ?
I'm particularely interrested to detect:
					/dev/[n]rst*, /dev/[n]rmt*
I'm looking for a non-string(3) operation on the device name.
As I guess this is OS dependent ... I'm using Ultrix 4.1 and SUNOS 4.1
Thank you very much, Alain.
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