[dtrace-discuss] all open files

[James Carlson]

Dave Marquardt writes:
> "Zhou" == Zhou Aaron <aaron.zhou1018 at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> Zhou> Another question: In userland, is there any other way to open
> Zhou> file except for the open()/creat() syscall? of course, in kernel
> Zhou> area, don't need to care open or not, just reference to
> Zhou> vnode,then can do any operation for associated file.
> 
> Depends what you mean by "file".  Are you interested in all the ways
> you can get a file descriptor?  If that's the case, you need to add
> dup/dup2 and socket.  Oh, how about pipe?

... and accept() and descriptor passing and the various ioctls that
can return open fds.

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