How to get device information from a file descriptor ?

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of Ninane at fynu.ucl.ac.be (Alain Ninane - FYNU):
: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) ?

man 2 fstat

--tom
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