UNIX admin wrote:
`lsof` peeks into private Solaris kernel structs and is likely
to crash if those are changed.
So my hair stands up on my head when I sit in management meetings
and one of my collagues whines why we can't have `lsof` integrated
in our internal build of Solaris... absolutely hor
> Really?
>
> Take 1:
> /bin/sh < /dev/urandom
> Illegal Instruction (core dumped)
>
> Take 2-29:
> cat /var/adm/messages* | grep -F core.sh | sort
You can take "takes" 'till the cows come home, but the day Solaris breaks
backward compatibility is the day Solaris will become crap, just like som
> In the current implementation for Solaris it pokes
> around in kernel
> memory and it has no business doing so, it can and
> will break.
Right; according to the author of `lsof` himself, `lsof` peeks into private
Solaris kernel structs and is likely to crash if those are changed. This is
what
