G'Day Richard,

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 05:38:14AM -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> > G'Day Robert,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:44:02AM +0000, Robert
> > Milkowski wrote:
> > > Hello Brendan,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Great!
> > > 
> > >       Would it also properly work with pid, ppid,
> > execname, etc. ?
> > 
> > By the end of the plan, yes:
> > 
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/Network
> > Provider/#Plan
> > 
> > But not for this first step - ip:::{send|receive}.
> > 
> > Associating IP events with processes is likely to
> > depend on the
> > packet IDs, socket provider and connection IDs.  It's
> > something
> > that I really want to get done...
> > 
> > Brendan
> 
> Does that mean we can dream of a Solaris port of lsof that's
> little more than a D script? :-)

No, we can dream of tools that do more than lsof can.  By the completion
of the network providers (especially step 13: /connfs), we will have stable
connection info available - not just for the DTrace network providers,
but also for other user land tools.

Brendan

-- 
Brendan
[CA, USA]
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