FreeBSD Port: sysutils/fuser

Stanislav Sedov ssedov at mbsd.msk.ru
Mon Sep 11 13:05:28 PDT 2006


On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:52:11 +0400
Stanislav Sedov <ssedov at mbsd.msk.ru> mentioned:

> 
> But they wants the value 0 to be returned in case of no errors, and
> since there are no errors in case of no files opened on mountpoint,
> returning non-zero could break some apps that relies on POSIX
> functionality.
> 
> IIRC, solaris resembles the same behavior.
> 
> You can check fuser entry in POSIX, it's available for free on
> opengroup.org. I might miss something. 
> 

BTW, maybe someone could commit this utility in the base system?
FreeBSD still lacks support of this POSIX app.

IIRC, someone was going to commit this year-two ago, but, unfortunately,
gave this up :-(

This version supports much more filesystems than stock fstat utility
and uses more efficient algorithms to find entries.

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Stanislav Sedov         MBSD labs, Inc.         <ssedov at mbsd.msk.ru>
Россия, Москва         http://mbsd.msk.ru

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