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

[UNIX admin]

> In the current implementation for Solaris it pokes
> around in kernel 
> memory and it has no business doing so, it can and
> will break.

Right; according to the author of `lsof` himself, `lsof` peeks into private Solaris kernel structs and is likely to crash if those are changed. This is what the author of `lsof` himself had to say on the matter -- and he seemed fully aware that he's doing something that is not correct!

So my hair stands up on my head when I sit in management meetings and one of my collagues whines why we can't have `lsof` integrated in our internal build of Solaris... absolutely horrible. If that doesn't frustrate one, I don't know what would.
 
 
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