/1/tap

NAME

tap – follow the pipes of a process

SYNOPSIS

tap [ pid ... ]

DESCRIPTION

Tap walks the file descriptors of a process looking for pipes (see pipe(3)) and then finds the processes on the other end of these pipes repeating the process recursively. The result is a tree of alternating process and filedescriptor nodes that make up the process pipeline.

SOURCE

/rc/bin/tap

SEE ALSO

ps(1), pipe(3), proc(3).

HISTORY

Tap first appeared in 9front (March, 2012).


	Tap walks the file descriptors of a process looking for pipes (see pipe(3)) and then finds the processes on the other end of these pipes repeating the process recursively. The result is a tree of alternating process and filedescriptor nodes that make up the process pipeline.