On 2019-07-09, ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just for the record, I think *my* (not the OP's) problem when trying
> to grep fstat results was that unlike lsof, fstat didn't show the
> former file names (hence unlinked); it only showed inodes, so I never
> got the "find this former file" part to work on OpenBSD.
> I have since found this blog post, where your man seems to have had
> the same problem, and where he had written a script with ncheck_ffs(8)
> to hack his way around that. That's a 13 year-old post though, and I
> haven't tried it:
> http://geek00l.blogspot.com/2006/03/openbsd-fstat-vs-lsof.html
> There used to be an OpenBSD lsof port, as per what's listed on
> ports.su, but there's no amd64 package now, and I never got that port
> to work either.
The lsof port didn't display filenames. That information is not
available on OpenBSD (and is not trustworthy on other OS either;
files could have been moved/replaced since opening).


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