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There is no lsof .... minimal proc filesystem

It seems you have been given a task, which the AIX operating system has been designed to prevent. What the rational behind their OS design? Security of processes? It seems they require you to know the pid, and only the launcher of the process will know it.

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Re^4: Working With The Process Table (AIX)
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Aug 06, 2011 at 23:03 UTC
    zentara,
    It is a local policy regarding lsof. AIX does ship with a very useful tool to interact with the process table - ps. I would rather not parse the output of ps but it may come to that. Early next week, I will be speaking with an internal IBM developer on how this information can be obtained (even if it means requiring setgrpid to read kernel memory) and weigh the cost of rolling my own or just parsing ps.

    Cheers - L~R

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