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

[Frank Hofmann]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> 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.
>
>

I know. That's all in the RFE I've referred to anyway. Just noone has done 
it yet. Maybe because Solaris developers know the "Solaristics" and don't 
miss "lsof" overly much. Again, personally, I can get what I want with 
pfiles and a bit of scripting; but thinking about e.g. having to write 
such a script portable between Solaris and Linux, admittedly, that'd be a 
pain, and that's where the usefulness of "lsof" comes in.


FrankH.