How do I know if a file is used by another process?

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How do I know if a file is used by another process?

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Re: How do I know if a file is used by another process? by nardo (Friar) on Jul 13, 2000 at 21:04 UTC
If you're only worried about multiple copies of your program accessing the same file, you can use file locking `perldoc -f flock`, otherwise you could parse the output of lsof (assuming lsof is installed on your machine).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How do I know if a file is used by another process? by dempa (Friar) on Jul 13, 2000 at 21:46 UTC
Maybe non-generic answers sucks, but anyway, if you should happen to be on a Solaris box, you could always use the command "fuser". I dunno in which release of Solaris it was introduced, but it's present in 2.6, 7 and 8.	[reply]
Re: How do I know if a file is used by another process? by lindex (Friar) on Oct 28, 2002 at 09:20 UTC
I had a post about this a while ago here	[reply]

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