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From: hope@gatech.CSNET (Theodore Hope)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Open files by users?
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Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 15:13:10 EDT
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In article <157@mipos3.UUCP> mike@mipos3.UUCP (Michael Bruck) writes:
>How can one tell which users have what files open?  I essentially need
>to see if a particular file is open and by whom.

The 'fuser' program on System V does this kind of thing.  It's SLOW, but
better than nothing.  It crawls around the inode tables, etc, and that's 
what you'll have to do if you want to write one yourself.

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Theodore Hope
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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