Man1 - peekfd.1

peekfd - peek at file descriptors of running processes

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

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.

-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.

/proc/*/*/*/fd

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

None.

The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:

*Error attaching to pid */<PID>/

An unknown error occurred while attempted to attach to a process, you may need to be root.

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

Trent Waddington

*ttysnoop*(8)