On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: > > Thank you for letting me know about this new feature procstat. > > > > But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that > > needs to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need > > some solution now.
I'm not completely certain what you are looking for, but doesn't lsof do just that? > If the port uses a script to extract the data, a tool like lsof may do > the trick. However, I'm not sure there are any native APIs to query > that data "as shipped" in 6.3. Once I've had some reasonable feedback > on procstat(1), I'll merge it into CVS and start it on the MFC route, > but 6.3 is almost certainly too soon for it to ship as part of that > release. I don't know if there will be a 6.4 or not, but I would > anticipate procstat(1) appearing in 7.1, and 6-STABLE if there are > requests. procstat(1) mostly relies on existing sysctls, and adds two > new ones for the purposes of exporting the file descriptor and VM > information only, so it is a fairly straight forward MFC. > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge > > > Yuri > > > > Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: > >>> Thank you for your response. > >>> > >>> I attempted to compile procstat but procstat.h seems to be missing > >>> in > >> > >> tgz. > >> > >> Yuri, > >> > >> Indeed -- looks like I forgot to p4 add on my development box. I've > >> updated > >> > >> the tarball to now include procstat.h. If there are any other > >> problems, do > >> > >> let me know. > >> > >> Robert N M Watson > >> Computer Laboratory > >> University of Cambridge > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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