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A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

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166 points LelouBil | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 22:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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maldonad0 ◴[01 Sep 25 04:25 UTC] No.45089437[source]▶
Looks like btop but M$.
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superkuh ◴[01 Sep 25 04:32 UTC] No.45089482[source]▶
The sysinternals guys (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) and code, at least most of it, existed independently of microsoft for many years. It was great. So great MS bought it and brought it and them inside. Russinovich is CTO of Azure now or something. So sysinternals is now random MS hires but I like to think it's still not really a microsoft product, just owned and mantained by them.

I was a windows user till XP came out and I've missed sysinternals tools. I'm going to enjoy this on my newer kernel machines. Seems to require some pretty cutting edge features.

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1. egorfine ◴[01 Sep 25 13:25 UTC] No.45092527[source]▶
It was truly great for Windows, no doubt about that.

Now, is it great for Linux? Absolutely not. These tools existed to vaguely resemble the capabilities we have had on *nix for decades and I'm not sure what kind of value could they bring back to Linux... like, really, what? A different, Microsoft-style optics to look at processes?