Extra SUMMARY: Re: 2 Q's: When file is open, and when file is PS

From: Morten K. Barfoed (morten@dsri.dk)
Date: Wed Jun 07 1995 - 15:11:40 CDT


Dear All,

Sorry for this extra SUMMARY.

One of my 2 original question was:

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1: How do I check if a file is opened by some process?
        At the prompt, and in a C-program ?

        I want to be able to decide when a file that is being
        transferred by FTP has been written in it's entirety,.
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In the first summary, I claimed that I couldn't handle this with
neither lsof nor fuser (the first a public domain tool, the second
a sun os command).

I did this on the basis of a small program written by myself, that
opens a file and writes a huge number of bytes one by one.

Today I retrieved version 3.29 of lsof, and tried transferring a
big file with ftp and both lsof and fuser reported the file open.

Trying again with my own program, lsof (the new version) could
detect that the output-file was open but fuser couldn't. I'm not
wizard to the degree of understanding that.

I apologize for the premature summary of yesterday.

Best regards:

Morten Krabbe Barfoed

Danish Space Research Institute phone: +45 45 88 22 77 (switch-board)
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Denmark e-mail: morten@dsri.dk



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