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Originally Posted by
jim mcnamara
Your system may have GNU utilities ( lsof is one) somewhere special.
Note that lsof is not part of the GNU utilities, it is not even distributed under the GPL.
It is also very specific in the sense it uses undocumented and somewhat hackish methods to access private kernel structures. For this reason, it needs to be adapted each time these structures evolve and older binaries refuse to work on newer kernels.
To avoid such issues, it is recommended to use the bundled
pfiles,
netstat, and other supported utilities.