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

[Frank Hofmann]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Martin Bochnig wrote:

[ ... ]
> 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.

Well, so what exactly does lsof give that for example something like:

#!/bin/sh
cd /proc
for i in *; do
 	pfiles $i
done

doesn't do as well ?

On the other hand, the request for lsof in Solaris is anything but new, 
and the reference to pfiles, the mentioning that lsof does "nasty digging" 
in the kernel's intestines as a reply is neither, and the arguments that 
the output format is different, the system load of pfiles is higher, lsof 
is "common operator knowledge", ... - all that isn't new either ...

See:

4286979	Solaris should include a utility like "lsof"

lsof isn't perfect, and it doesn't claim to be. It's just neat and 
helpful.

I think Sun has to overcome both "not invented here" and the instinctive 
reject via "not perfect, therefore not 'good enough' no matter what the 
users say", before lsof goes into mainstream Solaris.

Just my personal opinion there.

FrankH.