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34.Dd May 30, 2012
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 seperate
91.Xr open 2
92calls, one for
93.Ql R
94and one for
95.Ql W .
96.Sh IOCTLS
97User mode programs communicate with the
98.Nm
99driver through a number of ioctls which are described below.
100Each takes a single argument.
101.Bl -tag -width ".Dv FILEMON_SET_PID"
102.It Dv FILEMON_SET_FD
103Write the internal tracing buffer to the supplied open file descriptor.
104.It Dv FILEMON_SET_PID
105Child process ID to trace.
106.El
107.Sh RETURN VALUES
108.\" .Rv -std ioctl
109The
110.Fn ioctl
111function returns the value 0 if successful;
112otherwise the value \-1 is returned and the global variable
113.Va errno
114is set to indicate the error.
115.Sh FILES
116.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/filemon"
117.It Pa /dev/filemon
118.El
119.Sh EXAMPLES
120.Bd -literal
121#include <sys/types.h>
122#include <sys/stat.h>
123#include <sys/wait.h>
124#include <sys/ioctl.h>
125#include <dev/filemon/filemon.h>
126#include <fcntl.h>
127#include <err.h>
128
129static void
130open_filemon(void)
131{
132	pid_t child;
133	int fm_fd, fm_log;
134
135	if ((fm_fd = open("/dev/filemon", O_RDWR)) == -1)
136		err(1, "open(\e"/dev/filemon\e", O_RDWR)");
137	if ((fm_log = open("filemon.out",
138	    O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, DEFFILEMODE)) == -1)
139		err(1, "open(filemon.out)");
140
141	if (ioctl(fm_fd, FILEMON_SET_FD, &fm_log) == -1)
142		err(1, "Cannot set filemon log file descriptor");
143	/* Set up these two fd's to close on exec. */
144	(void)fcntl(fm_fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
145	(void)fcntl(fm_log, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
146
147	if ((child = fork()) == 0) {
148		child = getpid();
149		if (ioctl(fm_fd, FILEMON_SET_PID, &child) == -1)
150			err(1, "Cannot set filemon PID");
151		/* Do something here. */
152		return 0;
153	} else {
154		wait(&child);
155		close(fm_fd);
156	}
157	return 0;
158}
159.Ed
160.Pp
161Creates a file named
162.Pa filemon.out
163and configures the
164.Nm
165device to write the
166.Nm
167buffer contents to it.
168.Sh SEE ALSO
169.Xr dtrace 1 ,
170.Xr ktrace 1 ,
171.Xr truss 1
172.Sh HISTORY
173A
174.Nm
175device appeared in
176.Fx 9.1 .
177