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From: jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Unlocking locked file?
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Date: 23 Oct 90 16:50:42 GMT
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A friend terminated a process in a not-so-standard way
(I'm not sure what he did), but a file being used by the
process is now locked.
(It happens to be a text file, and any attempt to
get at it results in 'text file busy')

I've run into this problem before, and can always delete
the file using 'rm -f <file>' (under /bin/csh).
Also, I can rename the file, but it still remains locked.

However, a copy of the file does not exist, so we somehow
need to unlock the file, or at least be able to copy it.  

He was running aegis under SR10.2 if it makes a difference.



Jeff Haferman                            internet: jlhaferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering     DoD 0186  BMWMOA 44469  AMA 460140
University of Iowa
Iowa City IA  52240