From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-08-25T04:54:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Find the number of open files

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 04:41:06 +0900, Charles Mills wrote
> Is there an easy way to find out the number of open files held by a 
> process (using C or Ruby)?

There is a command, lsof, for *nix OSes that can do that.

If you don't have it, you can get it via FTP from

lsof.itap.purdue.edu:/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof_4.72.tar.bz2


Kirk Haines