How determine if a file is opened by another process

Peter Craft craft at uts.amdahl.com
Tue Feb 5 13:06:40 AEST 1991


In article <1969 at winnie.fit.edu>, rrandall at zach.fit.edu (Rick Randall) writes:
> In article <1991Jan29.204403.6071 at rick.doc.ca> andrew at calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) writes:
> >In article <1488 at nixsin.UUCP> koerber.sin at nixdorf.com writes:
> >
> >>I want to find out, whether any process has opened a file, of which I only
> >>Could anyone pls give me a hint ?. Maybe it's in a table in the kernel ?
> >
> >I need to know this too!
> >
> 
> 	ANSWER:  man fuser

fuser will give you the PID's which have a particular file open.

Does anyone know of a similar facility which will list the files that
a particular process has open.  If not, does anyone have any simple 
suggestions on how to accomplish this task, (short of formatting the 
user structure..).

Pete

craft at uts.amdahl.com



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