Re: lsof

["Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc." <woods%planix.ca@localhost>]

On 22-May-08, at 12:28 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:18:51PM -0400, Greg A. Woods; Planix,  
> Inc. wrote:
> > If someone can show some real useful feature of lsof that's lacking  
> > in
> > native tools then that's a good project to add that feature to one  
> > of the
> > native tools.
>
> fstat doesn't (try) to rebuild the path name.

As far as I know that's always a pretty expensive operation to try to  
do very often, even if only with a special command-line option.

Meanwhile it's a very easy thing to do with a simple find command for  
the one or two files that might be really interesting to know about at  
any given time, once given the information fstat does show.

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                                        Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc.
                                        <woods%planix.ca@localhost>