Re: [SLUG] Finding open files on the system

[Antony Stace <antony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sounds like

lsof

if you wrote your utility in c I would be interested in looking at the
source code, does it parse the /proc file system to get the information?


Cheers

Tony

Andrew Eager wrote:
> 
> At the last meeting,  it was asked:
> 
> " If the disk is spinning madly is there any way to determine which
> process is causing the activity ?"
> 
> A bloody good question that I have asked myself many times.  I used to
> have a utility called 'fopen' under QNX but not under linux.
> 
> If anyone is interested,  I have written a utility called 'fopen' which
> does the following
> 
>   a)  Prints the PID, Process name & Currently open files for that PID
>   b)  as above but for sockets
>   c)  as above but for pipes.
> 
> It also prints either the size of the file (so you can see it growing)
> or optionally, the time since last access/change/modification.
> 
> Example:
> 
>    PID    PROCESS            TIME         FILE/RESOURCE
>   1161   crond                    00:05:18      /var/log/cron
> 
>     ..... etc
> 
> If anyone interested, let me know.
> 
> Andrew E.
> 
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