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Re: Detecting open files



Hello,

Delip Rao wrote:
> How do I detect a file already been opened by someother process?

Use fuser or lsof.
On debian boxes, fuser is bundled with the psmisc package and lsof is in a
package of its own.

If your are looking for some code, check the sources of the mentioned programs.

- Raja Supe