Re: How do I ask: How many processes have this file open now?

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 23 May 1998 14:49:11 +0200

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russ@taylor.digex.net said:
> Is there a system call for a user program that will, given a filename
> (or fd), return the number of processes with that file open?

Not AFAIK.
fuser(1) does it by parsing all the cwd, fd, maps etc. entries in /proc

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