Subject: Re: process name in netstat
To: James Graham <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/03/2001 10:54:04
> I think more than the process NAME owning a particular socket, the PID
> owning a particular socket would be more useful.

Because file descriptors may be shared between processes, and because
sockets are file descriptors, there may be more than one pid.

BTW, as I think someone else pointed out, this information is
already available through fstat.  I've added a cross-reference to the
netstat man page to -current.

						- Bill