Hello all! I'm experiencing some errors using kvm_getfiles on Panther. Actually it is simply not working as advertised any more. So I checked the sources and found that kvm_getfiles() used sysctl() with a [CTL_KERN, KERN_FILE] mib to get this data from the kernel. I quickly wrote a small program that would replicate the kvm_getfiles() call and tested it on both Jaguar and Panther, output is below: ------------------------- JAGUAR Call sysctl() ask for size of [CTL_KERN, KERN_FILE] sysctl() returned 0 and gives size = 15772 bytes Allocating data pointer with size 15772 bytes Call sysctl() and ask to have [CTL_KERN, KERN_FILE] data copied to our data pointer sysctl() returned 0 and says 15412 bytes were copied Initial filehead.ls_first = 0x209E30C PANTHER Call sysctl() ask for size of [CTL_KERN, KERN_FILE] sysctl() returned 0 and gives size = 17392 bytes Allocating data pointer with size 17392 bytes Call sysctl() and ask to have [CTL_KERN, KERN_FILE] data copied to our data pointer sysctl() returned 0 and says 4 bytes were copied Initial filehead.ls_first = 0x0 ------------------------- Obviously something has changed as sysctl() now only returns 4 bytes which is nothing more than a null pointer, eg. there are no open files. Is there a new api for this or what should I do to fix this? I really need a list of open files in the system. Thank you, Martin _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.