Shipping "lsof" with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

[Martin Bochnig]

Joerg Schilling wrote:

>Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
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>>Somehow I am wondering why Solaris doesn't ship "lsof" in /usr/sbin/ ...
>>is this just "noone had time yet" or something else ?
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>Wasn't there a blog where someone explained why lsof is a perfornance pig
>and should be avoided in favor of other tools?
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>Jörg
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I don't know of a performance problem.
What I had seen is, that you apparently have to rebuild it for Solaris10
06/06, versions built for older releases don't work correctly under
06/06 anymore.
But that's certainly not a reason, why SUNW couldn't ship it.

Martin