Re: lsof

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

On 22-May-08, at 12:44 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> find requires iterating the whole filesystem to match up inodes.
> lsof tries to reconstruct that data from the name cache. If the data  
> is
> present, it is relatively easy to do. For DragonFly we actually do  
> that
> for fstat by default, simply because it is cheap enough to do that and
> almost always present.

Ah!  Well in that case....  NetBSD might benefit from a patch!  :-)

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                                        Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc.
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