[Text formatting recovered] On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 9:23:11 -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On 2012-11-08 09:20, Edward Tomasz Napiera??a wrote: >> Wiadomo???? napisana przez Andriy Gapon w dniu 8 lis 2012, o godz. 15:17: >>> Just curious why lsof can't use interfaces that e.g. >>> fstat/sockstat/etc use? Those base utilities do not seem to >>> experience as much trouble as lsof. >> >> Note that fstat(8) does not report file paths. On the other hand, >> procstat(8) does. It looks like "procstat -fa" and "procstat -va" >> together provide the same information lsof(8) does; unfortunately >> there doesn't seem to be a way to show a "merged" output for files >> opened (-f) and files mmapped, but closed (-v). Hmm. I don't know the details, but potentially there *would* be a more kosher way of doing what lsof wants. > Remember also that lsof is portable between MANY flavors of *nix. Only because the author goes to a lot of effort to make it so. There's special-case code for most kernels. In the case of FreeBSD, it would make sense to use documented interfaces where possible, and create them where they don't exist. 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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