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

[Josh Hurst]

On 1/5/07, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote:
>
> >Peter Tribble wrote:
> >> On 1/1/07, wb <widjayy at neuf.fr> wrote:
> >> >  I have a /tmp FS for swap, and a really big file crout*
> >> >  inside. The /tmp was 95% up.
> >> >  I decided to remove the crout file.
> >> >  The problem, is the /tmp is not decreasing, but still
> >> >  growing.
> >> >
> >> >  How could I make it decrease?
> >>
> >> Find and kill the process that's writing to that file.
> >
> >Somehow I am wondering why Solaris doesn't ship "lsof" in /usr/sbin/ ...
> >is this just "noone had time yet" or something else ?
>
> No; it's something that "we won't ship, ever" because of the
> nature how lsof trawls for its events.

You could send patches to fix lsfo if you do not like it's implementation :)

Josh