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Subject: Re: getting a list of open files versus PID nos.?
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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:54:57 -0800
> Matthew Fleming <mdf356@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is what lsof is for. =A0I believe there's one in ports, but I have
>> never tried it.
>
> Is there any advantage to using lsof instead of fstat(1) (fstat -p pid)?

I believe that lsof reports on all open files by all processes,
whereas fstat will only report on a specific provided pid.

Thanks,
matthew