Obtaining a File Name From a File Handle
GetFinalPathNameByHandle, introduced in
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, will return a path from a handle. If you need to do this on
earlier releases of Windows, the following example obtains a file name from a handle to a file object using a file
mapping object. It uses the CreateFileMapping and
MapViewOfFile functions to create the mapping. Next, it
uses the GetMappedFileName function to obtain the
file name. For remote files, it prints the device path received from this function. For local files, it converts
the path to use a drive letter and prints this path. To test this code, create a
main function that opens a file using
CreateFile and passes the resulting handle to
GetFileNameFromHandle.
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <psapi.h>
#include <strsafe.h>
#define BUFSIZE 512
BOOL GetFileNameFromHandle(HANDLE hFile)
{
BOOL bSuccess = FALSE;
TCHAR pszFilename[MAX_PATH+1];
HANDLE hFileMap;
// Get the file size.
DWORD dwFileSizeHi = 0;
DWORD dwFileSizeLo = GetFileSize(hFile, &dwFileSizeHi);
if( dwFileSizeLo == 0 && dwFileSizeHi == 0 )
{
_tprintf(TEXT("Cannot map a file with a length of zero.\n"));
return FALSE;
}
// Create a file mapping object.
hFileMap = CreateFileMapping(hFile,
NULL,
PAGE_READONLY,
0,
1,
NULL);
if (hFileMap)
{
// Create a file mapping to get the file name.
void* pMem = MapViewOfFile(hFileMap, FILE_MAP_READ, 0, 0, 1);
if (pMem)
{
if (GetMappedFileName (GetCurrentProcess(),
pMem,
pszFilename,
MAX_PATH))
{
// Translate path with device name to drive letters.
TCHAR szTemp[BUFSIZE];
szTemp[0] = '\0';
if (GetLogicalDriveStrings(BUFSIZE-1, szTemp))
{
TCHAR szName[MAX_PATH];
TCHAR szDrive[3] = TEXT(" :");
BOOL bFound = FALSE;
TCHAR* p = szTemp;
do
{
// Copy the drive letter to the template string
*szDrive = *p;
// Look up each device name
if (QueryDosDevice(szDrive, szName, MAX_PATH))
{
size_t uNameLen = _tcslen(szName);
if (uNameLen < MAX_PATH)
{
bFound = _tcsnicmp(pszFilename, szName, uNameLen) == 0
&& *(pszFilename + uNameLen) == _T('\\');
if (bFound)
{
// Reconstruct pszFilename using szTempFile
// Replace device path with DOS path
TCHAR szTempFile[MAX_PATH];
StringCchPrintf(szTempFile,
MAX_PATH,
TEXT("%s%s"),
szDrive,
pszFilename+uNameLen);
StringCchCopyN(pszFilename, MAX_PATH+1, szTempFile, _tcslen(szTempFile));
}
}
}
// Go to the next NULL character.
while (*p++);
} while (!bFound && *p); // end of string
}
}
bSuccess = TRUE;
UnmapViewOfFile(pMem);
}
CloseHandle(hFileMap);
}
_tprintf(TEXT("File name is %s\n"), pszFilename);
return(bSuccess);
}
int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR *argv[])
{
HANDLE hFile;
if( argc != 2 )
{
_tprintf(TEXT("This sample takes a file name as a parameter.\n"));
return 0;
}
hFile = CreateFile(argv[1], GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,
OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);
if(hFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
_tprintf(TEXT("CreateFile failed with %d\n"), GetLastError());
return 0;
}
GetFileNameFromHandle( hFile );
}
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