From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 15 08:12:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA06344 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:12:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [140.174.82.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06338 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:12:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from muir@localhost) by idiom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA02342; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:59:36 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:59:36 -0800 From: David Muir Sharnoff Message-Id: <199602151559.HAA02342@idiom.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * As David Muir Sharnoff wrote: * * Just to pick this single one... * * > A port of 'ofiles' or 'lsof' * * I know that lsof does more (well, it's been in the ports once?!), but * what's wrong with fstat(1)? Absolutely nothing if one knows that it exists! I've run into this one before: there's a command in a different version of unix-like OS that has an equivelent, but it isn't obvious. truss/trace/ktrace. lsof/ofiles/fstat. I'm sure there are more. An optional package of "pointer" commands would be nice. Has to be very careful never to install over something that exists. /usr/local/bin/ofiles: #!/bin/sh echo The FreeBSD equivalent is fstat. I'm not to bothered about it. I suppose I should do a real RTFM one of these days -- who knows what I might discover? On the other hand, the other day I counted apporimately 1,700 unique commands in the various bin directories. -Dave