Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:06:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com (Jim Dennis) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who is using a file? Message-ID: <199605211806.LAA01552@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605210401.VAA07003@mistery.mcafee.com> from "Jim Dennis" at May 20, 96 09:01:49 pm
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> > Once Upon A Time I came across the BSD utility to determine who has a > > particular file open and now I've forgotten it. This is a real useful thing > > when one wants to umount a fs and learns its busy. I *think* the utility > > could list the open files on a filesystem and/or list the users who are > > using a single file. > > > David, > > lsof > > ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof The lsof program looks in the DNLC to assemble file names. I thought that this didn't work under FreeBSD because the cache is in each FS (as calls to vfs_cache.c) instead of being shared like in SVR4 (as called through dnlc.c in vn_lookup). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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