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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How determine if a file is opened by another process
Keywords: file open
Message-ID: <3353@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 91 17:28:39 GMT
References: <1488@nixsin.UUCP> <1991Jan29.204403.6071@rick.doc.ca> <1969@winnie.fit.edu>
Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
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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:
>
>>>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 ?
>
>	ANSWER:  man fuser
>

#ifdef fuser
#define SYSV

While all the world's not BSD, all the world isn't System V, either.
Please don't make assumptions about other people's software.
BSD returns with

No manual entry for fuser

#endif	/* fuser */
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