How determine if a file is opened by another process

The Grey Wolf greywolf at unisoft.UUCP
Thu Feb 7 04:28:39 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:
>
>>>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 ?
>
>	ANSWER:  man fuser
>

#ifdef fuser
#define SYSV

While all the world's not BSD, all the world isn't System V, either.
Please don't make assumptions about other people's software.
BSD returns with

No manual entry for fuser

#endif	/* fuser */
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