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Lsof (LiSt Open Files) lists information about files that are open by the
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running processes. An open file may be a regular file, a directory, a block
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special file, a character special file, an executing text reference, a
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library, a stream or a network file (Internet socket, NFS file or Unix domain
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socket).
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2005-02-17 07:48:09 -05:00
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lsof(8) runs sgid kmem. However, the code has NOT been audited... you
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have been warned.
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Main use of lsof will be for writing cross-platforms scripts.
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OpenBSD includes fstat(1), which serves the same basic purpose.
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