From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2004-08-25T05:05:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Find the number of open files

On Aug 24, 2004, at 1:00 PM, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to find out the number of open files held by a
>> process (using C or Ruby)?
>> -Charlie
>
> *nix only, but
>
>   man lsof
>   man fuser
>
> -a

Thanks for the suggestion.
I guess another way to do it would be to walk all the valid file 
descriptors and call fstat() on them, checking for EBADF.
I was hoping there would a system call / library function that would do 
this for me.
-Charlie