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. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
