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From: ksudarsh@oracle.uucp (Krishna Sudarshan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Inode Ref. Count
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.070131.12198@oracle.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 07:01:31 GMT
Reply-To: ksudarsh@oracle.uucp (Krishna Sudarshan)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
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    Is there any way of finding the number of active references to a file? Are
    there system calls which could be used to tell you how many processes have
    opened a given file?

    -Krishna