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From: andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick)
Subject: Re: How determine if a file is opened by another process
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.144359.6321@rick.doc.ca>
Keywords: file open
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References: <1488@nixsin.UUCP> <1991Jan29.204403.6071@rick.doc.ca> <1969@winnie.fit.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 1991 14:43:59 GMT

In article <1969@winnie.fit.edu> rrandall@zach.fit.edu (Rick Randall) writes:

>In article <1991Jan29.204403.6071@rick.doc.ca> andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) writes:
>>In article <1488@nixsin.UUCP> koerber.sin@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

Nice answer:

	calvin.doc.ca /home/andrew> man fuser
	No manual entry for fuser.
"calvin.doc.ca" is a Sun running SunOS 4.0.3c

	dgbt.doc.ca /usr/users/u0/patrick> man fuser
	No manual entry for fuser.
"dgbt.doc.ca" is a VAX running Ultrix 3.1

-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
andrew@calvin.doc.CA
                    "The interface IS the program."