Using the /proc filesystem to monitor progress of script(whitane.com)

7 pointsby shanemhansen15 anni fa2 comments

Using the /proc filesystem to monitor progress of script

http://www.whitane.com/blog/uncategorized/proc-filesystem-to-see-progress-of-script/

A tip for using the /proc filesystem to monitor file upload/processing progress.

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`lsof' is a nice front-end to this particular usage of /proc, and also works on other Unixes (/proc is, I think, a Linux innovation, and absent at least on OS X).

shanemhansen15 anni fa

Oh, I never realized that's what the offset column is for. Leave it to me to reinvent (poorly) lsof by digging in some obscure corner of the kernel.