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		Using the /proc filesystem to monitor progress of script (whitane.com)
		7 points by shanemhansen on Dec 20, 2011 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

obfuscate on Dec 21, 2011 [–]

`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).

shanemhansen on Dec 21, 2011 | [–]

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.

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