> >I ask because the interfaces lsof uses > >(namely /dev/kmem) are too brittle to suport in any coherent fashion. > >Integrating LSOF would be more than checking in code. We'd have to > >provide stable interfaces (or at last *an* interface that could be > >contracted) and modify the lsof code to use those, which is a > >non-trivial amount of work. > > > > > > Why not bundle lsof with the kernel and just require that it > is rebuilt and shipped out every time the kernel is patched?
How would some networking engineer who breaks lsof will know that it became broken and how much of lsof knowledge would be required from this engineer to fix and test it? - akolb
