On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 at 16:35:22 -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On 2012-11-07 15:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 at 10:32:23 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk >> wrote: >>> >>> Once again, attempting to use kernel internals outside of the >>> supported interfaces is just asking for trouble; I do not understand >>> why this message is not sinking in over the course of your previous >>> mails to these lists, so I will not try to belabor it further. >> >> IIRC lsof is a special case that always needs to be built with >> intimate knowledge of the kernel. > > This is VERY true. Since some of the information lsof uses has > no API/ABI/KPI/KBI to get, it grovels around in the kernel. And until those interfaces are provided, I think this is legitimate. If there's anybody out there who hasn't used lsof, you should try it. It's good. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog_at_FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
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