Lsof

lsof is a command meaning "list open files", which is used in many Unix-like systems to report a list of all open files and the processes that opened them. This open source utility was developed and supported by Victor A. Abell, the retired associate director of the Purdue University Computing Center. It works in and supports several Unix flavors.

Key facts

Software.name: lsof
Software.screenshot: Lsof h screenshot.png
Software.author: Victor A. Abell
Software.programming language: C
Software.operating system: Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Solaris, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Software.platform: Cross-platform
Software.license: BSD license-compatible

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Source code

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The lsof-org team at GitHub takes over the maintainership of lsof originally developed and maintained by Vic Abell. This repository is for maintaining the final source tree of lsof inherited from Vic. "legacy" branch keeps the original source tree. We will not introduce any changes to the "legacy" branch. This branch is just for reference. "master" branch is used for maintenance. Bug fixes and enhancements go to "master" branch. lsof had supported many OSes. A term "dialect" represents code for supporting OSes. Because of limited resources, we will maintain the part of them. The current status of maintenance is as follows: We ran another repository, lsof-org/"lsof-linux" derived from lsof-4.91 that was also released by Vic. The repository is no more used; all the changes made in the repository are now in lsof-org/"lsof" repository.

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