Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: lsof doesn't work without module support? | Date | 17 Dec 1997 20:59:23 +0100 |
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In article <19971217104447.51328@hazel>, Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> wrote: >Apparently, lsof doesn't work in a 2.0.32 kernel compiled without >support for modules. This seems to mean that if you want to >avoid the exploit possibilities of modules you lose the stability >advantages of being able to track down, for example, what program >is preventing a disk from being unmounted.
Hmm, lsof should be rewritten to use the proc filesystem. I had a quick look at the source but believe me you want to rewrite it from scratch for Linux.
BTW, fuser has a lot of the sme functionality (use `fuser -vm /usr' to find out which processes have files open in /usr, for example) and it uses the proc file system.
Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage <*> miquels@cistron.nl | "May you live in interesting times"
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