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Lsof Credits
I owe an enormous debt to the users of lsof who have contributed
to its steady growth. The size of the list of people who have
helped me, while it has grown too large to include in the lsof man
page any more, is a testimonial to their generosity.
First I acknowledge a debt to the work of Dan Bernstein, Michael
``Ford'' Ditto, Tom Dunigan, Alexander Dupuy, Vik Lall, Ray Moody,
C. Spencer, Michael Spitzer and those who wrote Berkeley's fstat
program, all contributors to lsof's predecessors.
I thank Doug McKenzie for his HP-UX proctor program and Rich Kulawiec
for pointing it out.
Finally I thank all the following people who have used lsof, pointed
out its flaws, described its shortcomings, offered suggestions for
improving it, supplied code for it, gave me technical advice, and
provided test systems where I was able to do development work.
Szilveszter Adam
David Addison
Elias Halldor Agustsson
Per Allansson
Jim Ankenbrandt
Richard Allen
Thomas Anders
Ric Anderson
Stuart Anderson
Michael Antlitz
Marc Auslander
Tigran Aivazian
Jos Backus
David Bacon
Alexis Ballier
Scott Ballew
Ade Barkah
Alon Bar-Lev
Brett Bartick
Anthony Baxter
John Beacom
Bruce Beare
M. Jay Beck
Marek Behun
Bill Behr
Michael Beirne
Marc Bejarano
Andrew Bell
Steve Bellenot
Robert Benites
Dmitry Berezin
Ulrich Bernhard
Peter J. Bertoncini
Dave Bianchi
Mark Bixby
Allan Black
Jan Blunck
Achim Bohnet
Steve Bonds
Mark Bonsack
Volker Borchert
Bill Bormann
Ermin Borovac
Heddy Boubaker
Pieter Bowman
Michael Bracewell
H. Merijn Brand
Danny Braniss
Thomas Braunbeck
Kieran Broadfoot
Dean Brock
Hal Brooks
Andrew Brown
Jim Brown
Michael Bryan
Matthew Burt
Robert Byrnes
Pierfrancesco Caci
Bill Campbell
David Capshaw
John Caruso
Jon Champlin
Kris Chandrasekhar
Albert Chin-A-Young
Bernt Christandl
Marc Christensen
Hans Petter Christiansen
Tom Christiansen
Yves Christophe
Richard Chycoski
A. Channing Clark
Axel Clauberg
John Clear
David Clissold
Richard Coley
John Colgrave
David Comay
Lionel Cons
Bob Cook
Patrick Connor
Carl Cook
Jim Cooper
Roger Cornelius
Doug Crabill
Eric Cronin
Kim Culhan
Dave Curry
Robert Dahlem
Guy Dallaire
D. Chris Daniels
Renata Maria Dart
Ian Darwin
Carl E. Davidson
David Day
Will Day
Frederic Delanoy
Mike Depot
Steve Dibbell
Hugh Dickins
David DiGiacomo
Casper Dik
John DiMarco
Don Draper
Michel Dubois
Eric Dumazet
Dick Dunbar
Marc Duponcheel
Jan Dvorak
Calle Dybedahl
John Dzubera
Jeff Earickson
Greg Earle
Bernd Eckenfels
Niklas Edmundsson
Philip Edwards
Robert Ehrlich
Mark W. Eichin
Doug Eldred
Scott Ellentuch
Tom Endo
Grant Erickson
Craig Everhart
Chris Evert
Bob Farmer
Sami Farin
Mike Feldman
Quentin Fennessy
Ian Fitchet
Toralf Foerster
Bob Foertsch
Pierre-Yves Fontaniere
Ralph Forsythe
Jason Fortezzo
Mike Fraser
Curt Freeland
Terry Friedrichsen
Mike Frysinger
Harvey Garner
Carson Gaspar
Stuart D. Gathman
Brian L. Gentry
Dave Gilbert
Steve Ginsberg
Edwin Groothuis
Jin Guojun
Kurt Gollhardt
Roman Gollent
Steve Gonczi
Bill Goodridge
Julian Gordon
Marcin Gozdalik
Henry Grebler
Richard Green
Chaskiel Grundman
Armin Gruner
David Gutierrez
Robert Hall
Garner Halloran
Adam Hammer
Charles Hannum
Vlad Harchev
Craig Harmer
Michael Haro
Peter Harvey
Steinar Haug
Sheldon Hearn
John Heasley
Wolfgang Hecht
Janet Hempstead
Michael Hennecke
Randolph J. Herber
Andrew Hill
Kurt Hillig
Steven Hinkle
Paul Hite
Billy Ho
Michael Hocke
Brett Hogden
Gaylord Holder
Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Pekka Honkanen
Jeffrey C. Honig
Heidi Hornstein
Michael A. Hovan III
Barbara Howe
J. Nelson Howell
Jeff Howie
Louis Huemiller
John Hughes
Gerrit Huizenga
Peter Ilieve
Mayer Ilovitz
Gregory A. Ivanov
John Jackson
Kurt Jaeger
Edward Jajko
Marian Jancar
Paul Jarc
Jakub Jelinek
Robert Jelinek
Bruce Jerrick
Carl Johnson
Dion Johnson
Jeff Johnson
Douglas B. Jones
LaMont Jones
Peter Jordan
Arne H. Juul
Pasi Kaara
Frank Kaefer
Keith Kalet
Claus Kalle
Henri Karrenbeld
Amir Katz
Henry Katz
Kawaljeet Kaur
Doug Kehn
Kris Kennaway
Terry Kennedy
Shane Kenney
Andrew Kephart
Robert Kiessling
Joshua Kinard
Don Kirouac
Steve Kirsch
Philip Kizer
Thomas Klausner
Roger Klorese
Peter Klosky
Przemek Klosowski
Angelos D. Keromytis
Radko Keves
Valdis Kletnieks
Chris Kordish
Alek O. Komarnitsky
Joseph Kowalski
Christian Krackowizer
Paul Kranenburg
Troyan Krastev
Brad Krebs
Alex Kreis
Johannes Kroeger
Vincent Kujala
Ken Laing
Shirley Lam
Erwin Lansing
Victoria H. Lau
Markus Lautenbacher
Steve Lacey
Marc Aurele La France
Chad R. Larson
Steve Laubscher
Andrei V. Lavreniyuk
Loc Le
Tin Le
Diane Lebel
Francis Le Bourse
Kyungjoon Lee
Marty Leisner
Maciej Lesniewski
Stuart Levy
Ben Lewis
Michael Lewis
Angel Li
Ambrose Li
Wendy Lin
Carl E. Lindberg
Onno van der Linden
Johan Lindquist
James Lingard
Jason Lingohr
Robert Lipe
Gabor Liptak
Friedel Loinger
Michael Long
Pete Lord
Steve Logue
Bela Lubkin
Pav Lucistnik
Horst Luehrsen
Andreas Luik
Timothy J. Luoma
Michael Mackenzie
Lawrence MacIntyre
Jerome Marchand
Benson Margulies
Claude Marinier
Chris Markle
Roy Marples
Eberhard Mater
James Mathiesen
Tom Matthews
Fletcher Mattox
David Mazieres
Brian McAllister
Scott McClung
Dale McCluskey
Terry McCoy
Sean McDermott
Duncan McEwan
Dwight McKay
William McVey
Eric McWhorter
Marjo F. Mercado
Dan Mercer
Bill Melvin
Andrew Merril
Richard van Meurs
Jim Mewes
Gary Millen
Timothy Miller
Davin Milun
Yuliy Minchev
Jim Mintha
Mike Miscevic
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
Janardhan Molumuri
Nasser Momtaheni
Laurent Montaron
Phillip Moore
Dmitry Morozovsky
John Paul Morrison
John Gardiner Myers
Jeffrey Mogul
Dave Morrison
Pat Myrto
Toshiya Nakamura
Filippo Natali
Allan Nathanson
Chance Neale
Dan Nelson
Vladislav Nespor
Bjorn S. Nilsson
Anders Nordby
Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.
David O'Brien
Alexandre Oliva
Craig B. Olofson
Dave Olson
Rainer Orth
Sergey A. Osokin
Keith Parks
Will Partain
Vasco Pedro
Mark Peek
Ezra Peisach
Bill Pemberton
Lee Penn
Gildas Perrot
Jesse Perry
Nathan Peterson
Dominique Petitpierre
Hung Pham
Ray Phillips
Francois Pinard
Alex Podlecki
Lutz Poetschulat,
John Polstra
Scott Presnell
Mark Price
Philippe-Andre Prindeville
David Putz
Tom Qin
Kurtis Rader
Peter Radig
Jean-Pierre Radley
Tim Ramsey
Dewan Rashid
Richard J. Rauenzahn
Louis Rayman
Brian Redman
Eric S. Raymond
Erwin Reyns
Aaron Rhodes
Jim Reid
Jean-Luc Richier
Ingimar Robertson
Sylvain Robitaille
Larry Rogers
Malgorzata Roos
Larry Rosenman
Stephan Rossi
Kevin Ruderman
Wolfgang Rupprecht
Pavol Rusnak
Conrad J. Sabatier
Klaus Saggerer
Chris Schanzle
Igor Schein
Horst Scheuermann
Peter Schiffer
Michael Schmitz
Larry Schwimmer
Hendrik G. Seliger
Igor V. Semenyuk
Jonathan Sergent
Frank Sanders
Berkley Shands
Gregory Neil Shapiro
Eyal Shaynis
Michael Shields
Wesley Shields
Philip Shin
Anthony Shortland
Dave Sill
John Silva
Chuck Silvers
Gerry Singleton
Leonard Sitongia
Kevin Smallwood
Curt Smith
Ben Smithurst
Douglas R. Smith
Kevin Smith
Chang Song
Josh Soref
John Speno
Kenneth Stailey
Piet Starreveld
David Steiner
Charles Stephens
Marc Stephenson
Chip Stettler
Dave Stevens
Jeff Stewart
Diana Stockdale
Andreas Stolcke
Jeff Stoner
Sushila Subramanian
Jan Ole Suhr
Mike Sullivan
Patrick D. Sullivan
Peter Svensson
Chris Sylvain
Miklos Szeredi
Paul Szabo
Dale Talcott
Jon A. Tankersley
Jan Tax
Samuel Thibault
Andy Thomas
Matthew Thurmaier
Chris Timmons
Andrzej Tobola
R. Lindsay Todd
Zdenko Tomasic
Michael Townsend
Linus Torvalds
Mike Tracy
Dan Trinkle
Erik Trulsson
Lars Tunkrans
Lenny Turetsky
Kevin Vajk
Peter Valchev
John R. Vanderpool
Peter Van Epp
Peter C. Vernam
Peter Vines
Bob Ward
Jules van Weerden
Tom Weaver
Fernando A.B. Whitaker
Tom Whitty
Carson Wilson
David J. Wilson
Frank Winkler
Marc Winkler
Mark Vasoll
Holger VanKoll
Robert Vernon
Joep Vesseur
Larry Virden
Jos Vos
Jun Biao Wang
Christopher J Warweg
Bill Watson
Florian M. Weps
Joel White
Paul Wickman
Martin Wilke
Eric Williams
Steve Williams
Steve Wilson
Erich Wimmer
Wally Winzer, Jr.
Patrick Wolfe
Stephen Woods
James Woodward
Scott Worley
Jan Wortelboer
Joshua Wright
Sailu Yallapragada
Masatake Yamato
Donna Yobs
Ron Young
Blair Zajac
Karel Zak
Donald Zoch
Malcom Zung
and Waldemar Zurowski
If I have omitted a contributor's name, the fault is wholly mine,
and I apologize for the error.
Vic Abell <abe@purdue.edu>
September 27, 2011