On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Matthew Fleming <mdf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:54:57 -0800
>> Matthew Fleming <mdf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is what lsof is for.  I believe there's one in ports, but I have
>>> never tried it.
>>
>> Is there any advantage to using lsof instead of fstat(1) (fstat -p pid)?
>
> I believe that lsof reports on all open files by all processes,
> whereas fstat will only report on a specific provided pid.

    lsof prints out all open file descriptors whereas I thought that
fstat had to be targeted to specific files / directories / vmcore
files / etc.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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