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From: craft@uts.amdahl.com (Peter Craft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How determine if a file is opened by another process
Keywords: file open
Message-ID: <56JF01yy18J=00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 02:06:40 GMT
References: <1488@nixsin.UUCP> <1991Jan29.204403.6071@rick.doc.ca> <1969@winnie.fit.edu>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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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

fuser will give you the PID's which have a particular file open.

Does anyone know of a similar facility which will list the files that
a particular process has open.  If not, does anyone have any simple 
suggestions on how to accomplish this task, (short of formatting the 
user structure..).

Pete

craft@uts.amdahl.com