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From: koerberm@nixsin.UUCP (Mathias Koerber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How determine if a file is opened by another process
Message-ID: <1488@nixsin.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 91 01:40:21 GMT
Reply-To: koerber.sin@nixdorf.com
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd
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Cheers,

I want to find out, whether any process has opened a file, of which I only
have the filename (or the inode, and the fs). The process that might have
opened it need not be related to mine. I want to find out whether I can
delete the file, without creating a still existing, unref'd file, which might
grow without me knowing which file it is. I looked through inode.h and ino.h,
but found no pointer to this.

Could anyone pls give me a hint ?. Maybe it's in a table in the kernel ?

thx, Mathias
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