Subject: Re: process name in netstat
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/25/2001 23:14:59
> It seems Solaris and Linux have a flag to get netstat displaying the
> process that owns each socket displayed.

What do they do when multiple processes have it open?  What if none of
them are the process that created it?  In short, what is "the process
that owns" a socket?

> I wonder if this could be a wanted feature for NetBSD

I'd like to see it much more precisely specified first. :-)

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