[ removed linux.kernel and set followup to comp.unix.solaris only]

gerg@panix.com (Greg Andrews) writes:

> robertbrown1971@yahoo.com (Robert Brown) writes:
> >I looked at pfiles and it seems to be a pretty cool utility however my
> >server is Solaris 7. Can pfiles run on Solaris 7? What would that
> >entail? Is it binary compatible or does it depend on some new kernel
> >features?
> >
>
> On Solaris 7, pfiles is in the /usr/proc/bin directory. However, its
> output is not as useful for your purposes as the Solaris 8 one.
>

Greg, output of pfiles on Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 look the same to me:

solaris 7 machine: pfiles $$
17897: /usr/local/bin/bash
Current rlimit: 64 file descriptors
0: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:32,0 ino:16198 uid:517 gid:7 rdev:24,1
O_RDWR
1: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:32,0 ino:16198 uid:517 gid:7 rdev:24,1
O_RDWR
2: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:32,0 ino:16198 uid:517 gid:7 rdev:24,1
O_RDWR
3: S_IFDOOR mode:0444 dev:167,0 ino:14445 uid:0 gid:0 size:0
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE FD_CLOEXEC door to nscd[222]
63: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:32,0 ino:16198 uid:517 gid:7 rdev:24,1
O_RDWR FD_CLOEXEC


solaris 8 machine: pfiles $$
6622: /usr/local/bin/bash
Current rlimit: 256 file descriptors
0: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:85,30 ino:54272 uid:517 gid:7 rdev:24,6
O_RDWR
1: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:85,30 ino:54272 uid:517 gid:7 rdev:24,6
O_RDWR
2: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:85,30 ino:54272 uid:517 gid:7 rdev:24,6
O_RDWR
3: S_IFDOOR mode:0444 dev:259,0 ino:3630 uid:0 gid:0 size:0
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE FD_CLOEXEC door to nscd[220]
255: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:85,30 ino:54272 uid:517 gid:7 rdev:24,6
O_RDWR FD_CLOEXEC


What difference are you talking about?

Bye, Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic,

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