Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:23:04 -0500 From: Skip Ford <skip@menantico.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor Message-ID: <20071114112304.GA835@menantico.com> In-Reply-To: <20071114104157.D92502@fledge.watson.org> References: <1194896018.4738aa922f776@webmail.rawbw.com> <20071112214243.Y81124@fledge.watson.org> <1194905125.4738ce25a968c@webmail.rawbw.com> <20071112222557.N81124@fledge.watson.org> <1194980181.4739f355a32bc@webmail.rawbw.com> <20071114104157.D92502@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: > > >Thank you for letting me know about this new feature procstat. > > > >But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that needs > >to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need some solution > >now. > > If the port uses a script to extract the data, a tool like lsof may do the > trick. However, I'm not sure there are any native APIs to query that data > "as shipped" in 6.3. Once I've had some reasonable feedback on > procstat(1), Well, the header file procstat.h is still missing from the tarball AFAICT so I don't know how many people are using it. Not sure what type of feedback you want, but I've been using it since you posted the link and it works as advertised. I like being able to see the vm map without using procfs. I don't like having a procstat(1) utility along with a ps(1) utility. "procstat" seems short for process status as does "ps". Seems like procstat(1) should be a library with ps(1) the frontend, or ps(1) should be merged with procstat(1). Plus, the name "procstat" sounds an awful lot like a certain part of the body that makes me uncomfortable in my chair. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life asking people to see their procstat output? ;-) But, it works fine and provides access to information that's not readily available by other means. -- Skip
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