NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | ENVIRONMENT | DIAGNOSTICS | BUGS | AUTHOR | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PEEKFD(1)                       User Commands                      PEEKFD(1)

NAME         top

       peekfd - peek at file descriptors of running processes

SYNOPSIS         top

       peekfd [-8,--eight-bit-clean] [-n,--no-headers] [-f,--follow]
       [-d,--duplicates-removed] [-V,--version] [-h,--help] pid [fd] [fd]
       ...

DESCRIPTION         top

       peekfd attaches to a running process and intercepts all reads and
       writes to file descriptors.  You can specify the desired file
       descriptor numbers or dump all of them.

OPTIONS         top

       -8     Do no post-processing on the bytes being read or written.
       -n     Do not display headers indicating the source of the bytes
              dumped.
       -c     Also dump the requested file descriptor activity in any new
              child processes that are created.
       -d     Remove duplicate read/writes from the output.  If you're
              looking at a tty with echo, you might want this.
       -v     Display a version string.
       -h     Display a help message.

FILES         top

       /proc/*/fd
              Not used but useful for the user to look at to get good file
              descriptor numbers.

ENVIRONMENT         top

       None.

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:
       Error attaching to pid ...
              An unknown error occurred while attempted to attach to a
              process..  you may need to be root.

BUGS         top

       Probably lots.  Don't be surprised if the process you are monitoring
       dies.

AUTHOR         top

       Trent Waddington ⟨trent.waddington@gmail.com⟩

SEE ALSO         top

       ttysnoop(8)

COLOPHON         top

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       filesystem) project.  Information about the project can be found at
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psmisc                           2012-07-28                        PEEKFD(1)