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This is cool don’t get me wrong but why Linux-ify the BSDs when you can just adapt to the BSD way and use already existing tools (many of which are mentioned in previous comments)?

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What you ask is what many outside the Linux community are so annoyed and frustrated with. The Linux communities complete inability to look outside their echo chamber. Constantly reinventing the wheel poorly and in a broken screw portability way. Instead of hacking together cgroups and namespaces they should have simply ported the jail framework. Instead of epoll they should have simply adopted kqueue. All they see is Linux only.

And Solaris has zones and I/O completion ports. So what?

Solaris is dead. Maybe you didn't get the memo?

And your comment has absolutely nothing to do with Linux or the Linux community.

Solaris™ is dead, but everyone calls illumos "Solaris" :D

To be fair, cgroups appeared before we got rctl/racct.

More actual disasters though: signalfd (https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless), ALSA, wireless_tools/iproute2(ip command)/iw (was it SO HARD to just keep improving ifconfig?!), procfs/sysfs & udev.

If I logged on to a UNIX box, and ifconfig was not there I would install a real UNIX. Seriously I am not going to hunt down or figure out why basic UNIX tools, interfaces, or APIs are not there. I'm just going to write the OS off as a busted trash fire and fix it using the above fix.

What is the BSD way to get this information ?

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