I wanted to find all fds opened for a process in linux.
Can I do it with glib library functions ?
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.