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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:59:27AM +0000, Frank Hofmann wrote:
> 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 ...

Note that lsof doesn't have to do kmem craling.  For example on Linux
it only uses proper procfs interfaces.  As such proper interfaces seem
to exist on Solaris as well for use with pfiles it shouldn't be a problem
for people knowledgeable in this area to adjust lsof to do the right
thin on Solaris aswell.