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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: Question about file opens
In-Reply-To: <199710151010.KAA28975@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from Charles Green at "Oct 15, 97 10:10:56 am"
To: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:34:43 +0200 (CEST)
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According to Charles Green:
>         For a project I'm working on we're interested in tracking file opens,
> and are interested in the best way of tracking them. Any ideas? Or is it
> impossible without modifying the kernel? 

Does the lsof utility in the ports collection work for you?

  /Mikael