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34.Dd June 14, 2013
35.Dt FILEMON 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm filemon
39.Nd the filemon device
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.In dev/filemon/filemon.h
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45device allows a process to collect file operations data of its children.
46The device
47.Pa /dev/filemon
48responds to two
49.Xr ioctl 2
50calls.
51.Pp
52System calls are denoted using the following single letters:
53.Pp
54.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
55.It Ql C
56.Xr chdir 2
57.It Ql D
58.Xr unlink 2
59.It Ql E
60.Xr exec 2
61.It Ql F
62.Xr fork 2 ,
63.Xr vfork 2
64.It Ql L
65.Xr link 2 ,
66.Xr linkat 2 ,
67.Xr symlink 2 ,
68.Xr symlinkat 2
69.It Ql M
70.Xr rename 2
71.It Ql R
72.Xr open 2
73for read
74.It Ql S
75.Xr stat 2
76.It Ql W
77.Xr open 2
78for write
79.It Ql X
80.Xr _exit 2
81.El
82.Pp
83Note that
84.Ql R
85following
86.Ql W
87records can represent a single
88.Xr open 2
89for R/W,
90or two separate
91.Xr open 2
92calls, one for
93.Ql R
94and one for
95.Ql W .
96Note that only successful system calls are captured.
97.Sh IOCTLS
98User mode programs communicate with the
99.Nm
100driver through a number of ioctls which are described below.
101Each takes a single argument.
102.Bl -tag -width ".Dv FILEMON_SET_PID"
103.It Dv FILEMON_SET_FD
104Write the internal tracing buffer to the supplied open file descriptor.
105.It Dv FILEMON_SET_PID
106Child process ID to trace.
107.El
108.Sh RETURN VALUES
109.\" .Rv -std ioctl
110The
111.Fn ioctl
112function returns the value 0 if successful;
113otherwise the value \-1 is returned and the global variable
114.Va errno
115is set to indicate the error.
116.Sh FILES
117.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/filemon"
118.It Pa /dev/filemon
119.El
120.Sh EXAMPLES
121.Bd -literal
122#include <sys/types.h>
123#include <sys/stat.h>
124#include <sys/wait.h>
125#include <sys/ioctl.h>
126#include <dev/filemon/filemon.h>
127#include <fcntl.h>
128#include <err.h>
129#include <unistd.h>
130
131static void
132open_filemon(void)
133{
134	pid_t child;
135	int fm_fd, fm_log;
136
137	if ((fm_fd = open("/dev/filemon", O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC)) == -1)
138		err(1, "open(\e"/dev/filemon\e", O_RDWR)");
139	if ((fm_log = open("filemon.out",
140	    O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CLOEXEC, DEFFILEMODE)) == -1)
141		err(1, "open(filemon.out)");
142
143	if (ioctl(fm_fd, FILEMON_SET_FD, &fm_log) == -1)
144		err(1, "Cannot set filemon log file descriptor");
145
146	if ((child = fork()) == 0) {
147		child = getpid();
148		if (ioctl(fm_fd, FILEMON_SET_PID, &child) == -1)
149			err(1, "Cannot set filemon PID");
150		/* Do something here. */
151	} else {
152		wait(&child);
153		close(fm_fd);
154	}
155}
156.Ed
157.Pp
158Creates a file named
159.Pa filemon.out
160and configures the
161.Nm
162device to write the
163.Nm
164buffer contents to it.
165.Sh SEE ALSO
166.Xr dtrace 1 ,
167.Xr ktrace 1 ,
168.Xr script 1 ,
169.Xr truss 1 ,
170.Xr ioctl 2
171.Sh HISTORY
172A
173.Nm
174device appeared in
175.Fx 9.1 .
176