Finding open file descriptors for a process linux ( C code )?

I wanted to find all fds opened for a process in linux.

Can 开发者_C百科I do it with glib library functions ?

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Here's some code I used to use, I didn't know about /proc/self (thx Donal!), but this way is probably more generic anyway. I've included the required includes for all the functions at the top.

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>

#ifndef FALSE
#define FALSE (0)
#endif
#ifndef TRUE
#define TRUE (!FALSE)
#endif

/* implementation of Donal Fellows method */ 
int get_num_fds()
{
     int fd_count;
     char buf[64];
     struct dirent *dp;

     snprintf(buf, 64, "/proc/%i/fd/", getpid());

     fd_count = 0;
     DIR *dir = opendir(buf);
     while ((dp = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
          fd_count++;
     }
     closedir(dir);
     return fd_count;
}

I went through a very bad problem with leaking file handles once, and it turns out I actually coded the solution Tom H. suggested:

/* check whether a file-descriptor is valid */
int pth_util_fd_valid(int fd)
{
     if (fd < 3 || fd >= FD_SETSIZE)
          return FALSE;
     if (fcntl(fd, F_GETFL) == -1 && errno == EBADF)
          return FALSE;
     return TRUE;
}

/* check first 1024 (usual size of FD_SESIZE) file handles */
int test_fds()
{
     int i;
     int fd_dup;
     char errst[64];
     for (i = 0; i < FD_SETSIZE; i++) {
          *errst = 0;
          fd_dup = dup(i);
          if (fd_dup == -1) {
                strcpy(errst, strerror(errno));
                // EBADF  oldfd isn’t an open file descriptor, or newfd is out of the allowed range for file descriptors.
                // EBUSY  (Linux only) This may be returned by dup2() during a race condition with open(2) and dup().
                // EINTR  The dup2() call was interrupted by a signal; see signal(7).
                // EMFILE The process already has the maximum number of file descriptors open and tried to open a new one.
          } else {
                close(fd_dup);
                strcpy(errst, "dup() ok");
          }
          printf("%4i: %5i %24s %s\n", i, fcntl(i, F_GETOWN), fd_info(i), errst);
     }
     return 0;
}

You'll probably want these too, to satisfy the last printf above...

char *fcntl_flags(int flags)
{
    static char output[128];
    *output = 0;

    if (flags & O_RDONLY)
        strcat(output, "O_RDONLY ");
    if (flags & O_WRONLY)
        strcat(output, "O_WRONLY ");
    if (flags & O_RDWR)
        strcat(output, "O_RDWR ");
    if (flags & O_CREAT)
        strcat(output, "O_CREAT ");
    if (flags & O_EXCL)
        strcat(output, "O_EXCL ");
    if (flags & O_NOCTTY)
        strcat(output, "O_NOCTTY ");
    if (flags & O_TRUNC)
        strcat(output, "O_TRUNC ");
    if (flags & O_APPEND)
        strcat(output, "O_APPEND ");
    if (flags & O_NONBLOCK)
        strcat(output, "O_NONBLOCK ");
    if (flags & O_SYNC)
        strcat(output, "O_SYNC ");
    if (flags & O_ASYNC)
        strcat(output, "O_ASYNC ");

    return output;
}

char *fd_info(int fd)
{
    if (fd < 0 || fd >= FD_SETSIZE)
        return FALSE;
    // if (fcntl(fd, F_GETFL) == -1 && errno == EBADF)
    int rv = fcntl(fd, F_GETFL);
    return (rv == -1) ? strerror(errno) : fcntl_flags(rv);
}

FD_SETSIZE is usually 1024, and the maximum files per process is usually 1024. If you want to be sure, you can replace it with a call to this function, as described by TomH.

#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>

rlim_t get_rlimit_files()
{
    struct rlimit rlim;
    getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rlim);
    return rlim.rlim_cur;
}   

If you put all of that together into a single file (which I did, just to check it), you can produce an output similar to this to confirm it works as advertised:

0:     0                  O_RDWR  dup() ok
1:     0                O_WRONLY  dup() ok
2:     0                  O_RDWR  dup() ok
3:     0              O_NONBLOCK  dup() ok
4:     0     O_WRONLY O_NONBLOCK  dup() ok
5:    -1      Bad file descriptor Bad file descriptor
6:    -1      Bad file descriptor Bad file descriptor
7:    -1      Bad file descriptor Bad file descriptor
8:    -1      Bad file descriptor Bad file descriptor
9:    -1      Bad file descriptor Bad file descriptor

I hope that answers any questions you have, and in case you were wondering, I actually came here looking for the answer to the question the OP asked, and upon reading the answered, remember I had already written the code years ago. Enjoy.

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Since you're on Linux, you've (almost certainly) got the /proc filesystem mounted. That means that the easiest method is going to be to get a list of the contents of /proc/self/fd; each file in there is named after a FD. (Use g_dir_open, g_dir_read_name and g_dir_close to do the listing, of course.)

Getting the information otherwise is moderately awkward (there's no helpful POSIX API for example; this is an area that wasn't standardized).

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If you can identify the process via pid you can simply do

ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd | wc - l

In C you can pipe everything and reuse either the output or you may count the files by yourself in the above mentioned directory(count method e.g. here Counting the number of files in a directory using C)

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Sometimes C++ is an option, Donal's solution using boost::filesystem:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
#include <unistd.h>

namespace fs = boost::filesystem;

int main()
{
    std::string path = "/proc/" + std::to_string(::getpid()) + "/fd/";
    unsigned count = std::distance(fs::directory_iterator(path),
                                   fs::directory_iterator());
    std::cout << "Number of opened FDs: " << count << std::endl;
}

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If you mean how can you do it programatically from within the process then the normal (if slightly horrid) method is to do something like looping over all possible descriptors (use getrlimit() to read RLIMIT_NOFILE to find the range) calling something like fcntl(fd, F_GETFD, 0) on each one and checking for EBADF responses to see which ones are not open.

If you mean that you want to find out from the shell what files a process has open then lsof -p <pid> is what you want.

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fstat command lists all running processes of the system and their open descriptors furthermore it lists what type of descriptor it is (file, socket, pipe, etc) and tries to give a hint of what the descriptor is reading or writing on such as what filesystem and what inode number on that file system