[Gllug] file offset in running process

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Fri, August 14, 2009 16:50, Alain Williams wrote:
> I am doing a large 'dd'. I want to know how far it has got. How do I do it
> ?
>
> lsof does not support -o (offset) under Linux.
> Strace reports nothing useful.
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/proc/$pid/fdinfo/$fd has a field called pos:

if you grep for this maybe it will return what you are looking for.



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