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From: lee@minnow.sp.unisys.com (Gene Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: :  ** PROGRAM TO LIST FILES CURRENTLY OPEN BY A PROCESS **
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Date: 12 Dec 89 15:12:57 GMT
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Roseville, MN
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      I am trying to write a program (on UNIX 5.2) which will list the
      files which are currently open by a process.

      I started to investigate the problem and got as far as reading the
      proc structure out of the /dev/kmem.  Thats where I get stuck.  I
      know that I need to read the user structure for the process but
      how do I find it?  Is there a pointer of somekind in structure
      proc that I am overlooking.

      Once I can read the user structure then I will be able to get a
      list of the open file slots used by the program.  This will give
      me the inodes of the open files which I can then convert to
      filenames.

      Please mail responses to me.  Its easy to overlook things in the
      heavy traffic.  Thanks in advance.

		Gene W. Lee


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