Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:35:22 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Subject: Re: sysutils/lsof Author Question (for CLANG).... Message-ID: <cdfb43c5a36fbb113194a9a381a1000b@webmail.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <20121107213917.GD77848@eureka.lemis.com> References: <5d4c4abe37bd6fffd0c206c1b7b68ce1@webmail.lerctr.org> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1211071030050.2164@multics.mit.edu> <20121107213917.GD77848@eureka.lemis.com>
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On 2012-11-07 15:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 at 10:32:23 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk > wrote: >> >> Once again, attempting to use kernel internals outside of the >> supported interfaces is just asking for trouble; I do not understand >> why this message is not sinking in over the course of your previous >> mails to these lists, so I will not try to belabor it further. > > IIRC lsof is a special case that always needs to be built with > intimate knowledge of the kernel. > This is VERY true. Since some of the information lsof uses has no API/ABI/KPI/KBI to get, it grovels around in the kernel. Please don't abuse me for asking questions to keep lsof working on FreeBSD. Thanks.
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