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From: rwelch@diana.cair.du.edu (RANDY S WELCH)
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Subject: Re: how to put a program into .plan file
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Date: 27 Sep 90 06:02:23 GMT
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In-Reply-To: labb-4ac@web-4b.berkeley.edu's message of 26 Sep 90 15:54:56 GMT

In article <1990Sep26.155456.1656@agate.berkeley.edu> labb-4ac@web-4b.berkeley.edu (superMan (the web dweller)) writes:


   Pardon my ignorance, but how can you write a C program which checks the
   status of the file to see whether someone has opened it?  Exactly what
   system call or library function do you use?


Somewhat along the same lines, how can one tell if a file you have been
reading has been mv'ed?  

-randy
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