unable to get all files information thru pstat_getfile2() call

[sanjay khuntia]

Hi,

i am using the pstat_getfile2() system call to gather information about all files(information like, file name, file type, user id, group id, permission) for every process. But the output does not give all information for each and every file for a process. sometimes the filename and file type can not be shown using the above system call with other syatem calls like pstat_getpathname().

Can anyone guess what would be the problem in showing all file names properly and what is the solution for that.

Regards,

sanjay

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

This, and your other questions today, suggest that you should look at 'lsof' to (perhaps) gather some of the information you seek. The 'lsof' utility is available from the Porting center:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/cgi-bin/search?package=on&description=on&term=lsof

Regards!

...JRF...

[sanjay khuntia]

yeah, the documentation of pstat_getpathname() says that it will return the full pathname of an opened file in buf if it is available in the system cache of recent names looked up (DNLC). In my case i am also not getting pathname for all files. So i think this is the limitation of this system call or OS where we can't fetch all filepath.