site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 25-Apr-2007, at 20:38, Chase wrote: ... or maybe the stat() step is unnecessary altogether. I'm no expert, but I would have thought getfsstat() and friends. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... How do I get a BSD device path string (eg: "/dev/rdisk3") that represents the path to the device that holds a file for which I have a path string (eg: "/Volumes/SOME_DATA_CD/A_SUB_FOLDER/THE_FILE.txt")? I can get the dev_t number of the device using stat(), but I'm not sure what to do with that number to get an actual path to the raw device. So (to sum up)... How do I get a string like "/dev/rdisk3" starting with only the string "/Volumes/SOME_DATA_CD/A_SUB_FOLDER/THE_FILE.txt" ? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com