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Re: How to list all files opened by a process on the Mac OS X?


Am 24.01.2006 um 21:51 schrieb Mike Smith:

To start with, why are you interested in this information? What do you expect to do with it? 

Glad you asked!

I would like to know which files of a certain pattern (say: Extension) are opened by other processes, and I am interested in the full path. Not much else really, maybe the process ID that has opened it. Preferably I would like to do it without root privileges, because I am actually only interested in processes owned by the current user.

Right now, I am calling lsof from my code, and just parse the output. This seems like a pretty wasteful way of achieving what I need.

It would be great to know if there even is a smarter way of doing this. I did succeed in getting a file list from sysctl, but was unsuccessful in reading the corresponding vnodes (I assume that I was I need to obtain the full path)

Thanks a lot

Alex

 = Mike


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