On 21 jun 2004, at 22:03, Krishna Monian wrote: What is "the complete path"? In world with hard links, one file can have countless "complete paths". What I mean is the actual path for a given file and not just a relative path. /Users/admin/.... and so on And what I mean is that a file may have more than one actual path and location, and that it wouldn't surprise me if inside the kernel there is no notion of "the path" to a file, only some location on disk (possibly together with whatever the user specified, but as you noted that does not have to be a complete path) Jonas _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.