programatic file offset?

[Gary L. Paveza, Jr.]

Within glance, the ability to see where in a file a given process is current located (it's offset) is used by us to try to estimate how long the program needs to run (it's a serial process). Is there anyway to progamatically determine offset location outside glance? If I know the process ID, the file being accessed, etc?

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

not easily for all the information you want.
You should get and install lsof
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf58885079106d71190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Later,
Bill

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Gary,

As Bill says, lsof should do it. Attached is something I put together for tracking a mail message being sent out to the internet.

rgds, Robin