lsof-org at GitHub team takes over the maintainership of lsof originally maintained by Vic Abell. This repository is for maintaining the final source tree of lsof received from Vic.
This repository has two branches "master" and "cleanup".
"master" branch keeps the original source tree. We will not introduce any changes to the "master" branch. This branch is just for reference.
The "master" branch includes directories and files that we don't need to maintain the source tree at github.com. We would like to remove such directories and files from the source tree before adding new features. We will commit the changes removing them to "cleanup" branch incrementally.
After cleaning up is done, we will make a new repository called "lsof5" based on the "cleanup" branch of "lsof-legacy" repository. The "lsof5" repository will be the repository you may want to add new features.
lsof has supported many OSes. A term "dialect" represents code for supporting a OSes. Because of limitted resources we will maintain the part of them: GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. We will remove dialects for the rest of them. If you are interested in maintaining a dialect, let us know via the issue tracker of GitHub.
We are running another repository, lsof-org/"lsof-linux" derived from lsof-4.91 that is also released by Vic. To the repository, we have introduced some new features and fixes for building specific to GNU/Linux. We will merge the fruits of "lsof-linux" repository to "lsof5" repository in the future. If you are using GNU/Linux, you may want to use the code in "lsof-linux" repository.
lsof-org at GitHub team