Of LSOF

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Dec 27 00:20:32 UTC 2017


On Wed, 27 Dec 2017, Dimitry Andric wrote:

> Binary packages are built on the oldest supported 10.x release, which 
> currently is 10.3.  I think that lsof is just one of the few programs 
> that care about this, and show a warning.  This is probably because lsof 
> pokes around in half-documented (or undocumented) system structures, 
> which might change even in minor releases.

Thanks for that.

> The path of lowest resistance is to ignore the warning, otherwise build 
> (or package) the port yourself.

Which I discovered last year required that kernel sources be installed 
(which I didn't have at the time; I didn't build this system) because it 
wanted a certain #include file.  I reported this in a PR saying that 
perhaps all header files be shipped, but I dunno what happened.

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