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From: jlummel@caprica.com (James Lummel)
Subject: Re: How to find list of open files?
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 03:54:42 GMT
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Andrew Gillham (gillham@andrews.edu) wrote:
> Does anyone have any good ideas on how to get a list
> of currently 'open' files on i386 BSD systems?
> (or any UNIX box for that matter?)
> I would guess that you could find the file descriptor
> table in kernel memory and somehow read that, but as I don't
> know anything about that, I'm stuck!
> Anyway, maybe this 'top' thing does it?
> It's not real important, I'm just kind of curious.
> Thanks!!
> -Andrew
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I'm interested in this to. I know under POSIX QNX you can type 'sin fi'
(system information files) and it will list all open files, there the file
pointer is and the size of the file. I use NetBSD as a anonymous FTP machine
and would like the same functionality.
--
James Lummel - jlummel@caprica.com
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