On 10/8/07, Eric Schrock <eric.schrock at sun.com> wrote:
> Regardless of the tool, the underlying interfaces need to be developed.
> The first step is to develop such an interface, as I don't consider any
> userland program (apart from a debugger like mdb) that grovels through
> /dev/kmem as sustainable.
>
> Once such an interface exists, we can evaluate the tradeoffs between
> developing our own tool or adapting lsof to use the new interfaces.
I'd be interested in working on this part of the problem. Are you
thinking merely of the problem described in 4616466 ("Call to ask the
kernel what PID owns a certain TCP-socket needed"), or did you have
something larger in mind? (Aside from not limiting it to TCP.)
Chad
