Interprocess Communication report section

[jabedude]

Would it be possible to extract and report process IPC? It looks like Freta currently reports INET and UNIX domain sockets (under the "Networks" and "Open Files" sections). You could create a new report section to consolidate all IPC information (UDS, Netlink sockets, and adding shared memory) or add this to the "Processes" section.

[bmc-msft]

Thanks for the suggestion.

As you identified, we expose some IPC already, though adding additional information would be useful in many cases. As an example, adding more details to file descriptors would be useful to link which processes are communicating using it.

For future reference, common IPC mechanisms include:

• Pipes and FIFOs
• Locks
• Message Queues
• Shared Memory